The White House is getting a vegetable garden!! [View All]

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The First Lady is asking one be dug in the south garden.

Just heard this on ABC News, so no link, but I know this is going to make a lot of DUers happy!


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edited to add:

First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden


ABC News' Brian Hartman Reports: President Obama's latest shovel-ready project is close to home -- in fact, right in his own yard. In an effort to promote healthy eating, the first family will be planting a vegetable garden right on the White House grounds.

ABC News' Ann Compton and Sunlen Miller report that the new White House vegetable garden will be dug up and planted on the South grounds of the White House -- near the fountain but out of view of the main house.

Though the 16-acre complex is maintained by the National Park Service, one worker who preferred to remain anonymous assured ABC News that National Park Service staff won't do the sowing and planting. The White House residence staff will handle that.

As first reported online by food writer Eddie Gehman Kohan, who reports on food issues related to the Obamas, First Lady Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey's "O" magazine, "We're … working on a wonderful new garden project."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/03/first-family-to.html