First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden

The Note ^ | March 18, 2009

[bert]

You just can’t get good collard greens in DC.

[bert]

......hoes.....

OOps... mention hoes in the same sentence as the first family and you might get banned

[John123]

the first family will be planting a vegetable garden

Getting a head start on the Great Depression I see...

National Park Service staff won't do the sowing and planting. The White House residence staff will handle that.

But of course...

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The workers have been identified!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/white_house_garden

White House to break ground on ‘kitchen garden’

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 53 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The White House is getting a new garden.

First lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to break ground Friday on a new garden near the fountain on the South Lawn that will supply the White House kitchen.

She will be joined by students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District of Columbia. The children will stay involved with the project, including planting the fruits, vegetables and herbs in the coming weeks and harvesting the crops later in the year.

Mrs. Obama spent time earlier this week at an exhibit on rooftop gardening.

“We’re going to get a big one in our back yard, the South Lawn,” she promised the volunteers.

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[JustaDumbBlonde]

"He likes it in his gumbo, and boiled with tomatoes."

During the summer when the garden is going, a pot of okra, tomatoes, peppers & onion (sometimes zucchini) with some cornbread and speckled butter beans on the side makes my husband happier than just about anything. I'm happy with the butter beans and a sliced tomato.

Thank you for remembering that I've been battling. I'm feeling better and hope to beat this thing in 3 or 4 more months.

I caught some really nice crappie the other day and thought about you.

[girlangler]

I’m glad to hear you are feeling better.

I’ll be in Louisiana in late spring/early summer. Not sure about the dates yet, but will be in Lake Charles visiting relatives.

Then, going to stop off in Lafayette to visit a girl I went to HS with. Her daughter lives there.

I made the mistake the last time I went to LA of hanging out with a bunch of non fishing relatives (they have a weekend home on a great bass lake in east Texas). I told my hubby I will NEVER make another trip there without my canoe strapped to the top of the vehicle (LOL).

It is PURE tortue watching big bass breaking the surface and not being able to take a boat out to this.

I always also stop off (just off I-10) to pick up a load of Rabideaux sausage. You can’t get good smoked sausage like that up here in Tennessee.

I pinged another great conservative from your neck of the woods. Maybe I can meet you all while there for a good cup of Cajun coffee.

[Veto!]

I worked for the VP Marketing of a 100-branch bank. I wrote in the employee magazine that we were recycling all our old paper and publications when we went through a name change instead of tossing them out. He took out the reference to recycling because “our customers don’t care” and I put it back in before we went to press. He never said a word. Importantly, we DID then recycle all that junk and employees were thrilled to help. Old Shark Smile finally figured out we could make plenty of PR points by recycling and he became an instant Greenie.

This was a guy so stiff he clanked when he walked.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"I pinged another great conservative from your neck of the woods. Maybe I can meet you all while there for a good cup of Cajun coffee."

Great! When you get the dates, let me know.

I am sitting here stunned and speechless that you visited a bass lake with no way of going out to fish. ;-) You are correct, that sounds like the definition of torture if I've ever heard it!