As far as we know, the chefs were filmed picking in the garden for effect, and when the time came for taping, a couple of interns for the show flew down to DC, picked the stuff and drove back. It’s a four-hour drive.
As I said, I have no problem with whether the vegetables and herbs came from the whitehouse. This was a call made by production for foodtvnetwork. Not the whitehouse. Thank you for the information.