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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichelle Obama's White House garden?
Has anyone heard what has become of the garden Michelle Obama planted on the White House grounds?
Knowing of Trump's hate for everything "Obama",
I'm guessing it has been ignored and returned to weeds.
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Michelle Obama's White House garden? (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Jul 2017
OP
I understood that it was designated as part of the National Park system
missingthebigdog
Jul 2017
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LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,600 posts)1. Probably turned into a putting green.
Of course, it would be the "biggest and best putting green in the world."
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)5. That was my thought too.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)2. trump probably urinated on it
Igel
(35,374 posts)11. That would provide high nitrogen fertilizer.
And micronutrients.
Not sure it would count as "organic."
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)3. It's gone the way of Jimmy Carter's solar panels
....which Reagan removed out of pure spite.
Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)9. Spite seems to be the common denominator for most GOP actions. NT
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)4. It is part of the public tour
Pretty sure the staff and volunteers maintain it.
Not sure what they do with the produce. You know Cheeto wouldn't put a vegetable anywhere near his mouth.
Tanuki
(14,924 posts)6. Burpee Seed Company and the National Park Service have pitched in
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/us/politics/white-house-garden-michelle-obama.html
...."In the physical and financial sense, the gardens preservation is guaranteed. In October 2016, W. Atlee Burpee & Company and the Burpee Foundation, its philanthropic counterpart, jointly donated $2.5 million to the National Park Foundation to ensure care for the plot for years to come.
According to Mrs. Trumps communications director, Stephanie Grisham, the White House kitchen will cook with the homegrown vegetables and will donate the remaining harvest to charity. Ms. Grisham also said that the Trump family planned to continue the educational nature of the garden.
But the White Houses June harvest was carried out solely by the National Park Service, and administrators at the local Bancroft and Tubman schools, whose students frequented the garden over the last eight years, said they had not been invited back since the transition."
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...."In the physical and financial sense, the gardens preservation is guaranteed. In October 2016, W. Atlee Burpee & Company and the Burpee Foundation, its philanthropic counterpart, jointly donated $2.5 million to the National Park Foundation to ensure care for the plot for years to come.
According to Mrs. Trumps communications director, Stephanie Grisham, the White House kitchen will cook with the homegrown vegetables and will donate the remaining harvest to charity. Ms. Grisham also said that the Trump family planned to continue the educational nature of the garden.
But the White Houses June harvest was carried out solely by the National Park Service, and administrators at the local Bancroft and Tubman schools, whose students frequented the garden over the last eight years, said they had not been invited back since the transition."
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OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)8. I don't think it would surprise anyone if he had it concreted over.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)7. I understood that it was designated as part of the National Park system
I think a seed company (Burpee?) donated to fund it, and that excess harvest was to go to homeless shelters in the DC area. . . .
Rosco T.
(6,496 posts)10. Most likely plowed up and paved over n/t