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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichelle Obama's White House garden?
Has anyone heard what has become of the garden Michelle Obama planted on the White House grounds?
Knowing of Trump's hate for everything "Obama",
I'm guessing it has been ignored and returned to weeds.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,606 posts)Of course, it would be the "biggest and best putting green in the world."
BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)Igel
(35,404 posts)And micronutrients.
Not sure it would count as "organic."
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)....which Reagan removed out of pure spite.
Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Pretty sure the staff and volunteers maintain it.
Not sure what they do with the produce. You know Cheeto wouldn't put a vegetable anywhere near his mouth.
Tanuki
(14,933 posts)...."In the physical and financial sense, the gardens preservation is guaranteed. In October 2016, W. Atlee Burpee & Company and the Burpee Foundation, its philanthropic counterpart, jointly donated $2.5 million to the National Park Foundation to ensure care for the plot for years to come.
According to Mrs. Trumps communications director, Stephanie Grisham, the White House kitchen will cook with the homegrown vegetables and will donate the remaining harvest to charity. Ms. Grisham also said that the Trump family planned to continue the educational nature of the garden.
But the White Houses June harvest was carried out solely by the National Park Service, and administrators at the local Bancroft and Tubman schools, whose students frequented the garden over the last eight years, said they had not been invited back since the transition."
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OnDoutside
(19,990 posts)missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)I think a seed company (Burpee?) donated to fund it, and that excess harvest was to go to homeless shelters in the DC area. . . .
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