Posted on 04/06/2016 11:57:03 AM PDT by simpson96
Next year, if President Trump paves over the White House garden for his helipad, we will remember its bushels of kale, its bulbous turnips, its symbolism of a happy, healthy, sustainable America that ate right and stayed active.
Next year, if President Trump paves over the White House garden for his helipad, we will remember its bushels of kale, its bulbous turnips, its symbolism of a happy, healthy, sustainable America that ate right and stayed active.
“This is my baby,” Michelle Obama said on the South Lawn on Tuesday. It was her eighth and final spring planting, but “hopefully,” she added, “this will not be the last” one ever.
Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. Hillary Clinton’s husband is a vegan, so maybe Farmer Bill will be a thing. It’s hard to imagine Melania Trump in the dirt, on her hands and knees with schoolchildren, as Obama was on this cloudless afternoon, but we’ll keep an open mind.
For now, though, Obama’s garden is as big as ever, at 1,700 square feet. “Churchill” brussels sprouts and “Kentucky colonel” spearmint grow there. There also is garlic and fennel and shallots and endive. There are schoolchildren from Louisiana, Colorado, Wisconsin and Northwest Washington — free child labor enlisted to press seedlings into the dirt and to learn, over and over, that vegetables are good for you (except radishes, which are an abomination).
About 1:30 p.m. the first lady literally jogged into the garden area. It was 43 degrees. She was not wearing a jacket.
“You might be more interested in eating your vegetables if you know what they look like,” Obama told the students. A bitter breeze nipped at her bare ankles. Some of the students covered their ears with mittened hands. FLOTUS was all pep.
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I suspect the author knows exactly what it is.
Just where on White House grounds has she or the Forestry Division put that garden? There are a number of trees on the back side of the White House (south side???) missing. The WH used to be surrounded with trees, and you couldn’t see the apartments in the background. Some of those trees were 200+ years old.
Plow it under and salt it! then concrete!
This is the WH and that solution will be unsightly - think of the children!
Good question for the Worst Lady:
‘If you could be a tree, which one would you choose?’
(This was a legitimate question asked of Hillary Clinton by the infamous Baba Wawa.)
Billy Goat eats cats. At least that’s what I heard from the grapevine.
Come to think of it, Hillary does too according to Billy.
Dan has quite the way with words .... the bitter breeze nipping her (Moochelle’s) ankles ..... massaging the roots of cabbage seedlings ..... free child labor enlisted to press seedlings into the dirt ....
doesn’t sound like anything worth eating. no tomatoes, onions, zucchini
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