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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhofamily
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To: aShepard
those disgusting slimy little green pickle like things from the South

That would be OKRA!

41 posted on 03/18/2009 7:30:15 PM PDT by workerbee (If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
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To: familyop

Thanks for the good summation of Monsanto/NewWorldOrder farm plans. God help us if we want to plant some lettuce.


42 posted on 03/18/2009 7:30:15 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I would love to hear what the members of the WH staff said when they heard about this.


43 posted on 03/18/2009 7:30:39 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Obama is not my president until we see his birth certificate. A real one.)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

I would be more than happy to water it for him.


44 posted on 03/18/2009 7:30:46 PM PDT by Gator113 (For America to Survive, Obama Must Fail..... Obama=Failure in Chief with the Audacity of Dope.....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“I can just see Michelle pulling weeds”

When she bends over, her big butt will block out the sun and all the tomato plantas will die.


45 posted on 03/18/2009 7:31:01 PM PDT by Palladin (AIG: American Insurance Gangsters)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Where's their new dog?


46 posted on 03/18/2009 7:31:21 PM PDT by WVKayaker (Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

Goes along with Holders stance on legalization. He is an admitted crack smoker


47 posted on 03/18/2009 7:31:29 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Zero parcus dies Nero Totus hail FUBO)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Uh oh, have they heard about this?:

Lose your property for growing food? Big Brother legislation could mean prosecution, fines up to $1 million

48 posted on 03/18/2009 7:32:06 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: Gator113

49 posted on 03/18/2009 7:32:52 PM PDT by mylife ( The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: familyop

Ha, you already posted it.


50 posted on 03/18/2009 7:33:03 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: Cboldt

Right. The whole point of a garden is to do the work yourself, right? So they’re planning a garden in order to - do what?


51 posted on 03/18/2009 7:33:32 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Maybe the field hands can come up to the big house and have Missy give them a cool purple drank when they done.

Swing low,sweet chariot by Paul Robeson

Nobody Knows (the trouble I've seen) by Paul Robeson

52 posted on 03/18/2009 7:33:55 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache.)
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To: familyop

glad you posted it. Thanks.


53 posted on 03/18/2009 7:34:11 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
so Pres. Obama nor his wife are actually doing the planting...
54 posted on 03/18/2009 7:35:15 PM PDT by stylin19a (Obama - the ethical exception asterisk administration)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
"First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden"

Will it be adjacent to the new outhouse complete with half-moon logo on the door and the Sear's catalogue on the floor?

Leni

55 posted on 03/18/2009 7:36:51 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: mylife

Maybe Hillary can help out. She done been speakin’ the patois for a long time.


56 posted on 03/18/2009 7:37:18 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

The only way to get either of them near that garden will be to bait it with cameras.


57 posted on 03/18/2009 7:37:42 PM PDT by John Galt's cousin (Palin, or someone with as much integrity, in 2012.)
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To: fanfan
Maybe this is how we can take back the White House!

Lose your property for growing food?
58 posted on 03/18/2009 7:38:23 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: RegulatorCountry

And I am sure her agrarian up raising will be of use.


59 posted on 03/18/2009 7:38:55 PM PDT by mylife ( The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bamahead

Good plan!


60 posted on 03/18/2009 7:39:51 PM PDT by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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