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First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden
The Note ^ | March 18, 2009

Posted on 03/18/2009 7:17:32 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah

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.

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1 posted on 03/18/2009 7:17:32 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

Maybe they read FR and want to have a food supply during the Obama-induced food shortages.


2 posted on 03/18/2009 7:18:23 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself. - John Adams)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

How cute.


3 posted on 03/18/2009 7:19:00 PM PDT by Fintan
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

I won’t EVEN go there. I have to ask, tho. Is there a courgette for ‘Bwany’?


4 posted on 03/18/2009 7:19:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

What the ?


5 posted on 03/18/2009 7:19:18 PM PDT by txhurl (ralph...history books will read: Lincoln freed the slaves & Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

Maybe they can add a little fish pond as well to tide them over when the wagyu beef and arugula runs out.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2209610/posts


6 posted on 03/18/2009 7:19:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

Are they planting arugula?


7 posted on 03/18/2009 7:19:40 PM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
The residence staff? Welcome to the new Plantation!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
8 posted on 03/18/2009 7:19:46 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

I thought they already had one, I saw a picture here at F.R. of watermelons growing on the lawn.

Maybe they’ll grow their own arugula.


9 posted on 03/18/2009 7:19:59 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Selah)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
I can just see Michelle pulling weeds.

Yeah, that'll happen.

10 posted on 03/18/2009 7:20:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Only after disaster can we be resurrected." -- Tyler Durden)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

0bama’s gonna make those little black girls plant his crops.
How racist!


11 posted on 03/18/2009 7:20:08 PM PDT by counterpunch (Kenya has two presidents. America has Zero.)
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To: txhurl

Can’t Obama just wave his mighty hand and produce instant eggplants?


12 posted on 03/18/2009 7:20:41 PM PDT by Patrick1 (I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

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.

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.

*****So the O’s aren’t going to get THEIR hands dirty???


13 posted on 03/18/2009 7:20:53 PM PDT by azishot (I just joined the NRA.)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
a slight edit.

First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden Press Secretary

14 posted on 03/18/2009 7:21:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

Want some ganga man ...


15 posted on 03/18/2009 7:21:21 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Zero parcus dies Nero Totus hail FUBO)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is a joke in there someplace containing the words house and field.


16 posted on 03/18/2009 7:22:00 PM PDT by csmusaret (You can't spell Democrat without R-A-T.)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
The White House residence staff will handle that.

Well of course. Field hands don' do no gardnin'. Dat's fo de Massa's servants...

17 posted on 03/18/2009 7:22:11 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

I wonder if they are going to plant a little cotton in case of a shortage.


18 posted on 03/18/2009 7:22:34 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: clamper1797

He could use it for trade during Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation!

I think you’re onto something.


19 posted on 03/18/2009 7:22:36 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself. - John Adams)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

In a related story, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn that I’m getting ready to unload if anyone is interested. Cheap!


20 posted on 03/18/2009 7:22:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Just being a "U.S. citizen" does not make one an American.)
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