The best thing that Michelle has done is start the White House garden. Its grown to 1100 sq feet. Providing fresh food for the White House kitchen and the excess goes to local shelters/food banks. They even added a bee hive for fresh honey and to pollinate the garden.
Great idea. The actual work is done by National Park Service Rangers and some of the White House staff. I think the chef there has been very involved because he uses the fresh vegetables.
you think theres any chance the garden can continue regardless of who is President? I guess maybe they could find a spokesperson to fill Michele’s role?
I really think its such a wonderful example. Show kids where our food comes from and that vegetables are good to eat.
The White House chef is probably the only one that might be able to keep the garden running. If the new chef doesn’t support it then there’s no hope after Michelle leaves. Sam Kass was the chef and a big supporter of the garden. Not sure who the chef is now.
No, A Republican president would plant three carrots and apply for Federal Crop Insurance, direct payments and every other subsidy possible. Then sign a bill cutting AFDC and SNAP.
Won’t really be a concern as Obama will declare himself Eternal President.
All the prisoners in the FEMA camps will be put to work in the Victory Gardens that will be planted throughout the land. Each one surrounding a 556 ft statue of Our Great Leader.
He will be holding aloft a great Torch to cast light and allow work to be done 24 hours a day and provide a reminder to those who would consider treason.
A Republican president would probably put up a statue of Reagan surrounded by pews with kneelers. Rick Perry would have converted it to growing hops for the White House brewery. Michele Bachmann would have planted Cheerios in hopes of harvesting donuts. Christie would plant his enemies.
It may survive in some form no matter who wins. Whoever is chef would prefer fresh grown herbs when possible, the garden also provides good photo ops.
Donald Trump is going to turn it into a better garden. He loves plants. It’s going to produce the best fruits and vegetables year round. You’ll love it. Enough to feed everyone in DC. Everybody loves plants. It’s going to be the best garden anyone has ever seen.
The hard part was getting the garden started. Overcoming concerns about damaging the pretty lawn. Finding a suitable location. Testing the soil for chemicals. Allocating people to do the work. Finding charities that would accept the extra harvest.
Its been there now 8 years. I’d hope the chef and National parks employees can just continue running it after a new President moves in. Unless for some reason he or she objects to the cost of Federal employee labor in the garden.
A new administration can do whatever it wants – and often has.
Recall that Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the roof of the White House. Reagan had them taken down.
I didn’t realize they had been saved from the waste dump. The linked article traces some of them to various museums. Half of them are actually in use in a college in Maine. One is in a museum in China!
