Obamas to plant White House garden
Apparently, I’m not the only one getting ready to start my garden for the spring. First Lady Michelle Obama, who has repeatedly championed organic, local, healthy food, has revealed in the latest issue of O that the Obama’s are “working on a wonderful new garden project.”
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Posted By Robin Shreeves - Thu, Mar 19 2009 at 8:37 PM ESTI'm glad to see mostly
I'm glad to see mostly positive views on this subject. This is something that can get many others, both in urban and suburban areas, inspired to plant their own vegetable garden. And those of us who will be gardening ourselves can be inspirations to our friends and neighbors. The Obamas can set a good example, but so can the rest of us. It's just no one is going to be writing about our gardens. Well, I'll be blogging about my own garden, but I don't expect ABC News to be showing up at my door.... More
Posted By Pamela Price/RedWhite&Grew - Thu, Mar 19 2009 at 6:24 PM ESTMany Impetuses, One Victory...More to Come
Like many Americans and for a variety of good reasons, the Obamas see value in raising a bit of food in their yard. And it's going to be exciting to watch this story unfold.
Now that the many of us advocating for this step have seen success, our attention must turn. Yes, the trick now will be--just as EatTheView.org's founder Roger Doiron has suggested in the past--to take all this enthusiasm for the idea and bring it down to ordinary folks and communities nationwide..... More
Posted By Chris Milton - Thu, Mar 19 2009 at 5:38 PM ESTUrban Gardening
Anything which encourages sustainable sufficiency should be applauded .. wish our UK leaders would do similar in London.
Which makes me think: tearing up part of a lawn for veggies isn't an option many people have in an urban environment (through lack of a lawn).
It would be good to see this taken another step then and spread out from the White House into the wider urban environment.
Posted By Adam Shake - Thu, Mar 19 2009 at 5:22 PM ESTTwilight Earth is excited to finally see this
Hello Robin, as you know, but some of the great MNN readers may not know, this is an ongoing effort from thousands of people the country over to get our administration to realize the need for organic and healthy produce. (As your article talks about)Derek Markham and I have both written about this effort.
I for one, am super excited to see our new administration growing the green. I work just a few blocks away from the Whitehouse and I've promised to do whatever it takes to get in.... More
Posted By Hope Dlugozima - Fri, Mar 20 2009 at 10:33 AM ESTHi TwilightEarth
Thank you for good work on this...its really taken the efforts of so many people to make this happen...i believe this is the start of a whole movement of people going hyper-local and supplying at least a small % of their own food supply.
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Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Mar 19 2009 at 5:08 PM ESTNasty lazy woman isn't going
Nasty lazy woman isn't going to plant anything but her fingers in the pocketbook of the American taxpayer.
Posted By Robin Shreeves - Thu, Mar 19 2009 at 8:30 PM ESTcome back tomorrow - I'll
come back tomorrow - I'll have something on the first lady and her involvement that might change your mind
Obama Garden Wasteful
Really suprised to see Ms Obama start an old-school garden that wastes water, offers poor yields, promotes topsoil erosion, and reduces oxygen producing grass.
Its a shame that they didn't read on modern gardening and install a nice square-foot garden. A square-foot garden uses 20% of the space and 10% of the water of a traditional garden, but with 100% of the yield. Not to mention they look far nicer.
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