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Behind White House Garden Triumph, School Gardens Desperate for Help

February 8th, 2010 · 11 Comments · kids

Sarah Bernardi is one of the teachers from Bancroft Elementary School here in the District of Columbia whose students famously have been helping Michelle Obama grow the new White House vegetable garden. Despite all the interaction between school kids and the First Lady, however, Sarah says her own school garden and others like it depend too […]

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White House to Veg Garden with School Kids

March 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

The garden and food blogs are all atwitter with news that Michelle Obama will be installing a food garden at the White House. Apparently I was outnumbered in my argument against the garden on grounds that President Obama should think about food policy for the whole nation before he started feeding the First Family produce […]

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What Do Presidents Eat?

January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

There’s a great move on to have the Obamas start a large vegetable garden at the White House. But do presidents even like vegetables? We know that George Bush the elder famously hated broccoli. George Washington apparently loved fish and nuts. Abraham Lincoln was so preoccupied with holding the country together that he paid hardly […]

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