CA: Another first lady plants a garden (Maria Shriver on the Capitol Park grounds in Sacramento)

SFGate.com ^ | 3/24/09 | Wyatt Buchanan

[NormsRevenge]

It seems everyone is getting into gardens.

First Lady Michelle Obama held a groundbreaking Friday for a White House Kitchen Garden and today California First Lady Maria Shriver announced that a similar garden would be planted on the Capitol Park grounds in Sacramento.

Shriver's office is still working out details, but the 800-square-foot "demonstration garden" will be on the east side of the Capitol building and will be planted in May. It will replace an existing flower bed.

"We're going to see how that will work. If it's successful we'll talk about expanding it," said Francisco Castillo, Shriver's spokesman. He said it would not be like the "huge" garden planted at San Francisco's Civic Center last year.

Berkeley chef Alice Waters, the grand dame of edible gardens, will help with the project.

[NormsRevenge]

I wonder if they will use volunteers or undocumented workers.

[al baby]

She could be the scare crow

[George Smiley]

Did she dress like Michele whilst tilling the soil?

[FlingWingFlyer]

If Shriver and Obama have begun growing their own food, the rest of us better get busy. I think they know something we don’t know.

[stboz]

All the bums and panhandlers that infest Sacramento will stand around it and ask for someone to pick veggies for them.

[goodnesswins]

sounds like more work for Mexicans....

[Lizavetta]

She could be the scare crow

Gee, why would you say that?

[calcowgirl]

"This new garden will bring awareness to children, students and visitors about the important role of food, where it comes from, ..."

What would Maria know about food? EAT, Maria!

[Jolla]

I have 6 tomatoes plants growing like weeds here in San Diego, we will have 3 variates ready to eat in a month.

[freekitty]

First off, she isn’t planting it herself except for photo ops and she’s going to have other tending it until she’s bored with it.

And yes, we should all grow gardens if we want to and hang those idiots telling us we can and they can’t. More diversion and distraction.

[freekitty]

Meant to say we can’t and they can’t.

[mrmargaritaville]

can’t wait to see Michele out in the garden with her ho.

[Vince Ferrer]

Plant it next to that homeless tent city in Sacremento where it will do some good. This is some subtle message of hoping to start a trend without actually telling people to panic.

[preacher]

Gardening must be testing positve before focus groups.

[You Dirty Rats]

Neither the garden in Sacramento nor the garden in Washington will have any shortage of fertilizer.

[Mojave]

[tiki]

My thought exactly.

[notaliberal]

More than likely that will be using it as their personal porta potty!

[notaliberal]

that=they.....Geeezzzz

[Fred]

Will part of Maria’s job be keeping the bums from relieving themselves on the veggies?