Yeah, I know it is Thursday and  not Monday, but this news was too good to wait and I am breaking my bi-weekly rule.  Don’t worry on Monday you will get part 2 of my worm bin story.  Today it is all about the Obama’s and the first White House vegetable garden since Roosevelt.

This started a while back with a campaign to get the president to dig up some lawn for a garden.  A cult following came along for a little video and a big dream over eattheview.org.

Now it has happened! They are planting a garden at the White House. It is such exciting news and just one more little thing that will help to bring a local, sustainable, healthy lifestyle back into vogue. Read more over at the New York Times.

The Clintons grew some vegetables in pots on the roof of the White House. But the Obamas’ garden will have 55 varieties of vegetables — from a wish list of the kitchen staff — grown from organic seedlings started at the executive mansion’s greenhouses.

The Obamas will feed their love of Mexican food with cilantro, tomatilloes and hot peppers. Lettuces will include red romaine, green oak leaf, butterhead, red leaf and galactic. There will be spinach, chard, collards and black kale. For desserts, there will be a patch of berries. And herbs will include some more unusual varieties, like anise hyssop and Thai basil. A White House carpenter who is a beekeeper will tend two hives for honey.

Total cost for the seeds, mulch, etc., is $200.

Source: New York Times

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