http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_garden
The White House is getting a garden. Will this inspire millions to do the same? Will Obama pull his own weeds? Can a First Chicken Coop be far behind?
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If our local news radio station is to be believed, Woodrow Wilson raised livestock on the White House lawn.
I believe that reinstituting the White House Garden received a big verbal “stimulus” from Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, who, though contacted, was unfortunately passed over for a post in Obama’s administration.