Posted on 05/21/2009 6:50:45 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Sacramento, CA (AHN) - California first lady Maria Shriver is following U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, who gave the White House a vegetable garden, by planting one at her state's Capitol.
Shriver will plant the first edible garden on the grounds of the Capitol Thursday, her office said in a news release.
Shriver has promoted the creation of gardens at schools across California as a way for students to learn. Since she began her work, the number of schools with gardens has doubled from 3,000 to 6,000.
"Over the years, I have seen how gardens have positively transformed students, schools and communities in California. Gardens are a wonderful resource, and I truly believe in the life lessons they teach and the lives they touch -- and that every school and community should have one," Shriver said in the statement. "What we're doing in California goes beyond symbolism, we are truly creating a comprehensive environment for learning all around this garden."
Shriver hopes "WE Garden in Capitol Park" will educate and inspire Californians about nutrition, healthy living, agriculture, science, history and service.
Why aren't you BAILING your Husband's sinking ship 24/7?
Arouse the troops! Garden Ping!
Thank goodness. Maria needs to eat pretty bad.
Sounds like something Eva Peron would have done.
Hey Maria! We don’t have any money for the stinkin seeds! And besides the million squirrels that live in Capitol park will eat anything that tastes like food!
I can just see her out there busting up the sod, tilling and breaking her back planting those veggies.
Maria will burn thousands of gallons of jet fuel and leave a massive carbon footprint, burning a symbolic hole in the ozone just to fly in and out every week. Then she will order her taxpayer funded servant out to weed the garden.
Well she did marry a vegetable.
Is “edible” the new “vegetable?”
Don’t forget the Poinsettias.
LOL! It IS! But you wouldn’t BELIEVE the number of requests I’ve had for it at the Garden Center this spring.
Stupid Old Hippies and Clueless Hipsters!
Really? How many starving kids have they fed?
“Well she did marry a vegetable.”
LOL!
I say that first, Maria needs to submit her edibles to the FDA for approval or be fined.
The saddest part is the fact that I thought I was talking about Michelle Obama but it works just as well with Shriver.
“Really? How many starving kids have they fed?”
You know, I have NEVER seen photos of their own kids. Can you imagine with her HUGE head and Arnold’s massive girth what those daughters look like?
Can Arnold even BE the bio-Dad, based on his steroid use?
Kinda catty, but I HAVE wondered. (I escaped CA in 1981.)
Arnie makes a short cameo appearance in the new Terminator flick but its a computer generated edition. The acting quality has not suffered though.
That’s right. never see their kids. They must be grownups by now.
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