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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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To: AndrewWalden
Just some brownie ingredients for Obama's hard working economic advisors to munch on.
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posted on
03/20/2009 4:13:52 PM PDT
by
dr_who
To: Steelfish
What a genius idea to put a beehive in the middle of the garden. I wonder if Michelle’s going to be picking any of that produce and dodging pi**ed off bees? Somehow, when she says “we are going to make our own honey”, I suspect she doesn’t actually mean “we”.
Let’s see, elementary school kids forced to prepare the ground, plant the crop, harvest the crop. I wonder how many child labor laws have been broken?
122
posted on
03/20/2009 4:20:03 PM PDT
by
ArmstedFragg
("the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs" - Jefferson)
To: razorback-bert
hoe in hand. /sarc
123
posted on
03/20/2009 4:21:23 PM PDT
by
sniper63
(Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
To: veritas2002
Bunch of sharecroppers Sharecroppers had to pay the property owner for use of the property. Instead, the owners of the property are being taxed to death by the sharcroppers.
124
posted on
03/20/2009 4:24:53 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: eureka!
Oh, how quaint. They are just like me and my wife with our little garden. Not quite. You and your wife do not have the power of Corvée
Local primary school pupils will help her with the planting and harvesting of the vegetables, herbs and salad crops.
125
posted on
03/20/2009 4:29:08 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
( As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. - D)
To: eleni121
"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."
The BS from Barack alone is so rank only the useless and annoying weeds of America are likely yo flourish.
126
posted on
03/20/2009 4:31:21 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: ODDITHER
Extremely well argued post! Now, if only the MSM did something like that!
To: Hulka
“Yup. . .and the baby-daddy drunk on palm-oil wine.”
Yes making a sewer out of a country is hard work.
128
posted on
03/20/2009 4:38:13 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
To: Red_Devil 232
Ha! I can see it now;a closed van drives in by the bac way ,and under cover of dusk,professional gardners quickly transplant full-grown plants heavy with produce.Next morning the press conference and "arvest" is held for a gullible public.
How long since B.O. 's ACORN constituents tried to grow something that couldn't be smoked?
129
posted on
03/20/2009 4:39:57 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: Gabz
They’re going to eat what they grow? They’ll starve.
They’re going to eat what some White House staff person grows.
130
posted on
03/20/2009 4:41:34 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Gabz
Can’t you just see her out in the Sun with a hoe?
131
posted on
03/20/2009 4:41:53 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: Grunthor; ODDITHER
See post 118.
I garden for enjoyment and jalapeno peppers and tomatoes.
It costs a lot more but does taste better.
132
posted on
03/20/2009 4:42:22 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
To: hoosierham
ACORN is growing discontent!
133
posted on
03/20/2009 4:44:59 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Steelfish
Some one forgot to install a teleprompter in the Whitehouse garden cause when she spoke........ we are going grow herbs, beans and LETTUCES! thats right you heard it right LETTUCES. Harvard grad major in liberal arts and ebonics. Can’t make this stuff up folks!
134
posted on
03/20/2009 4:46:33 PM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!)
To: papasmurf
135
posted on
03/20/2009 5:21:16 PM PDT
by
Does so
(White House uncomfortable? Sleeplessness? The 0bama will quit before 6 months are up.)
To: ronnie raygun
LETTUCES is correct if more than one type is going to be grown.
136
posted on
03/20/2009 5:23:26 PM PDT
by
Gabz
To: metmom
Of course you’re correct, but you know them and photo ops.........
137
posted on
03/20/2009 5:24:08 PM PDT
by
Gabz
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Can’t you just see her out in the Sun with a hoe? The same month that I'm gracing the cover of Vogue :)
138
posted on
03/20/2009 5:25:28 PM PDT
by
Gabz
To: NormsRevenge; Brad's Gramma; SouthTexas
Our local news carried this and Meshell Mybell in her tribal garment had drugged a bunch of kids with Ritlin and they showed her how to use a spade to roll back the sod. They held a Pow Wow and decided on Rattlesnake watermelon over Charleson Grey and Sugar Baby which was a surprise to me...
139
posted on
03/20/2009 5:39:13 PM PDT
by
tubebender
(99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
To: ronnie raygun
From the
Washington Post article:
The collection of crops, a wishlist from White House kitchen staff, will include lettuces, squash, fennel, rhubarb, cucumbers and sweet and hot peppers.
More than one kind of lettuce = "lettuces"
140
posted on
03/20/2009 5:59:56 PM PDT
by
saquin
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