Obama White House Veggie Garden to be Planted

Mike Lucey

Hi Guys,

I wonder is the sign of times to come! Well in any case of 'leading' by example.

*Food writer Eddie Gehman Kohan has the scoop (or shall we say shovel) on the April issue of Oprah's

Magazine interview featuring a cover-story interview with Michelle Obama revealing the exciting plans for a White House vegetable garden. But will this newest shovel-ready project from the Obama administration be an organic undertaking?

The First Lady, now The First Locavore, chats with Oprah:
Michelle Obama: We're also working on a wonderful new garden project.

Oprah: Will kids get to visit the garden?

Michelle Obama: We want to use it as a point of education, to talk about health and how delicious it is to eat fresh food, and how you can take that food and make it part of a healthy diet. You know, the tomato that's from your garden tastes very different from one that isn't. And peas - what is it like to eat peas in season? So we want the White House to be a place of education and awareness. And hopefully kids will be interested because there are kids living here.*

If anyone is interested in following Michelle's example, check of this application. It should satisfy the 'CAD' tendencies in many of us.

Garden Planning Tool
http://www.growveg.com/freetrial.aspx?gclid=CKjy_ryCqJkCFQ2ZQwodzRy-qQ

Mike

Michelle's Veggie Garden.jpg

linea

If they are serious and the lawn does end up looking like that, brilliant.
If they are talking about six cabbages in a row, and some cress on the window cills, not so brilliant

The garden design app looks fun, I might use it for planning some vegetable plots.

pbacot

They already dug some up and had an event with kids. I doubt it will look like that but, there's plenty of space to do a decent garden, I'm sure.

Now if there's reform on farm policy, that'd be even better. Apparently the pick for Ag secretary indicates more of the status quo.

Meanwhile Coen found out that the Congress is working on a bill to ban growing your own food. (see "Obama Deception") http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=17523&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=105#p142471

Daniel

The garden is the result of an organic gardening/food advocate, but certainly will not look like the picture posted. A vegetable garden is hardly the appropriate setting for state ceremonials.

The bill Coen referenced does not ban individuals growing their own food. It regards commercial facilities - we've had some serious food poisoning outbreaks last few years as a result of contaminated produce. Our Congress can be stupid, but not so stupid as to try banning people growing their own food.

pbacot

@daniel said:

The bill Coen referenced does not ban individuals growing their own food.

I know, I was just adding to the fun. Not sure if Coen was funnin' tho. There are many bloggers raising such alarms.

The bill does not have wide support. It does however include farms, and my only concern would be that too many requirements for (yearly) filing and standards can hurt small farmers; as dairy regulations did to family farms in the east last century. Organic farming groups have been up in arms, but I don't believe there's a threat there either.

david_h

I understand Pres BHO is Planting about 3 Trillion heads of Cabbage!

Yee-HAW!

yeah. . .it's a Pretty lousy PhoShop job, but it's just a gag, for cryin' out loud!

American Barathak