The President & First Lady are healthy eaters.
It's now official: the First Family will have their own vegetable garden at the White House. Not a garden planted and maintained by a landscaper or other employee; but planted and maintained by the Obama family themselves!
This is big, people. It could very likely have an impact upon the way food is viewed in America. If the health benefits aren't enough reason to grow veggies at home, the shaky economy certainly is. President and Mrs. Obama are avid foodies and clearly are the most nutrition-conscious First Family we've had a in some time.
Let's hope this garden and the healthy eating it will enable will be an inspiration to would-be gardeners everywhere!
Comments
Those lazy people aren't going to garden anything. They're city people. They only know how to take money - they don't know how to put anything out.
LOL, I think the Obamas are going to make you eat your words, Bob. Apparently, Michelle and the kids are getting some encouragement from the White House chef on this one.
And if you think the Obamas are lazy? Then you haven't been paying attention. Pick on the President's policies, if you must, but nobody with a modicum of awareness could call Barack or Michelle "lazy!"
I wrote to Derrick Jackson (Boston Globe) today asking him to do an article on the huge contradiction between this organic vegetable garden and the Secy of Agriculture, Vilsack being a water boy for Monsanto - and therefore, GM food. And Obama got thousands of letters from many of us asking him not to appoint Vilsack as his Secy of Agriculture - to no avail. Furthermore, it used to be that to be organic the ground had to be chemical free for at least seven years. I do not know if that standard is still upheld today. However, this organic garden on the White House lawn will be planted in soil that must have thousands of chemicals in it.
Sheila Parks, Ed.D.
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