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The Obamas To Eat What They Grow [Kenyan White House]
BBC News ^ | March 20, 2009

Posted on 03/20/2009 2:34:51 PM PDT by Steelfish

The Obamas to eat what they grow

The Obama family plan to eat what they grow in the White House in the future

US First Lady Michelle Obama is set to break the ground for an organic garden on a patch of the south lawn to grow produce for the White House kitchen.

Local primary school pupils will help her with the planting and harvesting of the vegetables, herbs and salad crops.

Promoting healthy eating for American families has become a part of the first lady's agenda.

She has promised her whole family will be getting involved, and even President Barack Obama will help with weeding. Mrs Obama hopes that inspiring children will help spread the healthy eating message to others.

"My hope is that through children, they will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities," she said in an interview in her East Wing office.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhofamily; bhowhitehouse; dontbelieveit; food; gardening; victorygarden
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1 posted on 03/20/2009 2:34:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

herbs?


2 posted on 03/20/2009 2:35:34 PM PDT by AndrewWalden (America is the greatest force for human progress in the world today.)
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To: Steelfish

Finally something about the 0bama’s that doesn’t anger me!


3 posted on 03/20/2009 2:36:31 PM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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To: Steelfish

This sort of makes one want to have a cigar, a couple beers, and a big, juicy double cheeseburger with fries, doesn’t it?


4 posted on 03/20/2009 2:36:53 PM PDT by ronnyquest ("That's what governments are for, to get in a man's way.")
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To: Steelfish

I can’t wait till she slaughters a goat,
that ought to get the kids interested.


5 posted on 03/20/2009 2:37:26 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Steelfish
So she isn't going to be supporting local farmers and current produce contracts? Too bad for them huh.

Of course the exception will be the nightly lavish parties they throw - can't expect a little old family garden to produce enough for their big shindigs.

6 posted on 03/20/2009 2:38:04 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Serkit 3/19/09 "Slow Joe needs to stay out of the deep end of the Think Tank")
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To: Steelfish

I can’t wait till she slaughters a goat,
that ought to get the kids interested.

Is she allowed to do that or is it haram?


7 posted on 03/20/2009 2:38:18 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Steelfish

How organic-—will they be composting their WH waste in this garden as well? WEll not all the waste...that would be way too much and too toxic.


8 posted on 03/20/2009 2:38:49 PM PDT by eleni121
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To: Steelfish

I can’t wait to see the Obamas in overalls and strawhats, hoe in hand.


9 posted on 03/20/2009 2:39:14 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Will trade sex for ammo)
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To: papasmurf
I really doubt this.

It seems like another ruse...

10 posted on 03/20/2009 2:39:19 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: Steelfish

Has she been living under a rock her whole life? She has never gardened before and she thinks that she is going to grow food for the masses on the White House lawn.


11 posted on 03/20/2009 2:40:03 PM PDT by madinmadtown (It is good to be right.)
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To: Steelfish
They tell us to quit being so tight and spend some money, but then they start plowing up the White House lawn to plant a victory surrender garden.
12 posted on 03/20/2009 2:40:26 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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To: Steelfish

Japanese cows?...for $100 per lb. steak!


13 posted on 03/20/2009 2:40:39 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama has turned a crisis into a catastrophe.)
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To: Steelfish
Arugula???


14 posted on 03/20/2009 2:40:55 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (http://obamaclock.org/)
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Oh, how quaint. They are just like me and my wife with our little garden. I like them now. /focus group polling mode


15 posted on 03/20/2009 2:41:22 PM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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To: AndrewWalden
Yeah, herb
LOL!
16 posted on 03/20/2009 2:41:37 PM PDT by hope (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Steelfish

So could Obama lose the White House because he is growing his own food? Some small farms and organic food growers could be placed under direct supervision of the federal government under new legislation making its way through Congress. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209412/posts


17 posted on 03/20/2009 2:41:57 PM PDT by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
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To: Steelfish
Perhaps the agrarian White House reforms will be along the lines of your typical African abode:

The women till the fields until dark while the men lay in the shade drinking sorghum beer and smoking.

18 posted on 03/20/2009 2:41:58 PM PDT by IbJensen ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."Thatcher)
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To: razorback-bert

We need the picture of the elderly couple with the man holding a pitchfork.


19 posted on 03/20/2009 2:42:00 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama has turned a crisis into a catastrophe.)
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To: Northern Yankee

it is. Now she can legitimately go on Martha Stewart


20 posted on 03/20/2009 2:42:36 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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