White House Garden

Kids To Swarm White House For Spring Planting

AP | Posted 03.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- School kids from around the country will descend on Washington next week to help with spring planting at the White House kitchen garden....

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Ten Ways to Occupy Your Garden

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.21.2012

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I grew up in NYC in an apartment building, yet somehow I can now grow organic fruits and vegetables. And so can the 6th-graders I work with in school gardens. If we can do it, trust me, anyone can!

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WATCH: Michelle Obama Tells Nate Berkus About Her Fall Harvest

The Huffington Post | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 01.07.2012

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For Michelle Obama, fall might be the most wonderful time of the year. The First Lady has been hard at work tending her crops on the White House's Sou...

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WATCH: Michelle Obama Makes ESPN SportsCenter Top 10

Posted 12.08.2011

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Goooooooaaaaaal! The only reward that First Lady Michelle Obama was seeking when she hosted members of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team and a ...

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PHOTOS: Michelle Obama Soaks Up Some Sun

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 12.06.2011

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The First Lady practiced what she preaches constantly about staying healthy with two days of activity at the White House. On Wednesday, Michelle Ob...

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If The White House Garden Grew Subsidized Crops

Posted 08.01.2011

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The image below details what the White House Garden would look like if it was planted with subsidized crops from the Food and Farm Bill (via Slow Food...

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Children's Book Published On White House Garden

Obama Foodorama | Posted 06.04.2011

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Perfectly timed to celebrate National Gardening Month, Clarion Books will today release First Garden: The White House Garden And How it Grew, which br...

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A Goliath Comes for a Small Publishing David

Ilene Barth | Posted 05.31.2011

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I write "White House" at my peril. In a letter the counsel to the president complains that Red Rock Press has used "White House" in a title of a book that lacks White House "approval or endorsement."

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Monsanto Nation: Exposing Monsanto's Minions

Ronnie Cummins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Should we resign ourselves to the fact that the Biotech Bully of St. Louis controls the dynamics of the marketplace and public policy? Or should we stand up and say Hell No to Monsanto?

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Food and Farming in Obama's First 100 Days

Michael Pollan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Perhaps the most encouraging action so far has come from the East Wing, where Michelle Obama has been speaking out about the importance of real, fresh food, home cooking and gardening.

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First Lady Hosts Students For White House Fall Harvest

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama munched a baby turnip, dug up giant sweet potatoes and snipped pumpkins off the vine as she teamed up with local sch...

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Time to Get Dirty: Autumn Chores in the Garden

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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What you do in the fall will help make your spring and summer flower dreams come true. Fall is a critical time to clean up the garden.

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In Praise of Beets: The Ostracized White House Vegetable

Rosalyn Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since we live to eat and we love nothing more than yummy, fresh, local produce, we're in heaven now that our nearby Farmer's Markets are selling their...

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A Chemical Reaction: The Story of the First Town to Ban Pesticides

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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In my anti-grass quest, I found it's the male spousal unit who's having a hard time letting go of his huge, useless, drug addicted turf . . . Maybe it's time he watched the new documentary entitled A Chemical Reaction.

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How to Build a Raised Bed

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

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Raised beds are actually the easiest way to get started with a garden, since you just start right on top of the grass and bring in fresh soil and compost.

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If Michelle Obama Taught Biology, it Would Look Like This

Gregory Ferenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a display of extraordinary multitasking, a humble Title I elementary school in West Hollywood boldly takes on numerous White House social initiatives in a single biology course.

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Gardening So Simple You Can Easily Grow Your Own

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.17.2011

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Alice Waters got her wish. There was a vegetable garden on the White House lawn during World War II. In the mid-'90s, Waters --- founder of Chez Pan...

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Michelle Obama, Healthy Eating, and Our Church's Homeless Kitchen

Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

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My Christian faith beckons me to look at my neighbors, to love them even as I love myself. That's what First Lady Michelle Obama left us--she took the time to see her neighbors.

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White House Honeybees Produce Tons Of Honey!

nytimes.com | Elisabeth Goodridge | Posted 05.25.2011

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Meet the White House honeybee. Numbering more than 65,000 at one point, the bees produced a bumper crop of honey this year, the first time honey has e...

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Michelle Obama Fall Harvest: Reveals That The White House Garden Cost Only $180 To Plant

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thursday Michelle Obama hosted students to help her harvest the White House garden. The students were enthusiastic to help dig up some vegetables, and...

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Michelle Obama Reveals Secret Ingredient On Food Network's "Iron Chef America" White House Premiere

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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On "Iron Chef," food superstars Comerford, Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse meet in Washington for a trip to the White House. The first lad...

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Sam Kass: The White House Chef Digs All Things Locavore

nytimes.com | RACHEL L. SWARNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Still, proponents of sustainable farming and locally grown, organic foods are cheering Mr. Kass on. Dan Barber, the chef at Blue Hill in Greenwich Vil...

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7 Things You Need To Know For World Food Day (Including How To Get Involved)

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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For many Americans, every day is "Food Day." Yet, there are millions in America for whom providing meals for their family is a daily struggle. World F...

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White House Garden: Michelle Obama's Fresh Food Platform

AP | By DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 09.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- To Michelle Obama, her White House garden is more than a plot of land. It's also a soapbox. The South Lawn garden has given Mrs. Obama ...

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Sam Kass, White House Chef, Works To Fight Child Obesity

Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Kass and President Obama go way back. Kass cooked for Obama for two years before he was elected president and has been heavily involved in tending...

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