| Michelle Obama?s Green Vegetable Garden In White House
The U.S President Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama, along with students from a local elementary school and numerous world-class chefs picked the fall harvest this week by plucking turnips, sweet potatoes, pumpkins as well as other homegrown goodies. The 1,500 square-area garden, which was planted in the spring of 2009 in White House, has yielded thousands of pounds of products without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Those products have served the Obama family, White House guests and the needy at a local food shelter. The First Lady used the project to educate children about the benefits of fresh food.
The U.S President Barrack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama gathered her fall harvest on Wednesday, October 20
Michelle in a black coat and rubber boots was in the garden
While it was raining, Michelle Obama dug potatoes, pulled turnips and worked with a dozen children who are traditionally invited for harvest day in the White House garden
“You guys have witnessed the first White House pumpkins“, Michelle told the students
The pumpkin is a symbol of Halloween observed on October 31
Ms. Obama posed photos with the children
The U.S. first lady decided to remind the children about the program of improving the quality of food at American schools and reducing fastfood for healthy food
Michelle showed a 2-kilo potato that she had dug up several minutes earlier
After the U.S. First Lady and the children finished gathering the harvest, they came to the White House kitchen to clean the vegetables. The White House cooks saw the harvest and suggested making salads and a soup out of them
Over 700 kilograms of vegetables were gathered and cooked in the White House kitchen. The vegetables and honey from the beehives are used to cook food for the president’s family and official receptions. The garden produces lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cabbage and greens
During his election campaign, Barack Obama focused on supporting agriculture and choosing organic food. His wife also backs healthy food
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