Posted on 04/10/2009 2:49:34 PM PDT by lewisglad
First Lady Michelle Obama, the knees of her cropped black slacks covered in dirt, planted herb seedlings and carrots in her new White House Kitchen Garden Thursday, telling local schoolchildren enlisted to help that fresh veggies are "brain food."
Making the point that homegrown is a cheap way for families to eat healthily, the First Lady asked the kids: "How much do you think it costs to do this garden?"
"Over $100,000," guessed a boy.
Laughing, Mrs. Obama replied, "My husband would go crazy if he thought we were spending that kind of money! ... It's between $100 and $200. So it's not a lot of money. And this garden can not only feed my family, but it's going to feed all the staff at the White House. We're going to serve it at some State Dinners."
Mrs. Obama said the top question she got from world leaders on her recent trip to Europe with the president was about the garden. "From Prince Charles on down, they were excited we were planting this."
As for another pressing question back home – when they'll need to worry about putting chicken wire around the garden to keep out a frolicking First Dog – Mrs. Obama said only, "Soon, soon!"
Do not worry. Michell has likely been gettig her knees dirty for a very long time.
I wanna see her sweat and get her hands dirty. I want to see how long she can break dirt, water, and fertilize.
Long enough for a photo would be my guess.
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Prince Charles? The ultimate loser and twit?
That's almost funny.
pictures, need pictures!
$100 or $200 would buy a lot of carrots.
Whoa !!!!
Did’nt the seditious rats just pass a food safety bill to protect us gardeners from such inovate idiots as Michelle ?
as if the kids living in public projects have backyards in which to plant a garden ...
what an idiot she is, her own darlings off at Sidwell Friends and nowhere in sight
“My husband would go crazy if he thought we were spending that kind of money!”
I seriously doubt that.
He can’t seem to get riled up over Somali pirates holding an American citizen hostage......
I plant herbs in my garden every year...it's not a press event for Pete’s sake. This Marxist First Family MSM gushing crap is really getting to be too much.
“My husband would go crazy if he thought we were spending that kind of money!”
Um, do you not pay attention to what your husband is spending?
Prince Charles is impressed. Perhaps Michelle could ask him over for a day of hoein’ weeding, watering, fertilizing.
This should be picked up as sheer humor. LOL
her husband just flew a St Louis pizza chef to DC to make him a special pie
I don’t think he minds “spending money”
Nice sneakers..................for an eighty year old.
Any pics of her rototilling the ground? (I didn’t think so.)
Wonder where she got those cute little signs?
Yeah. Electric ones. She will need em before long, according to the way of most Dem presidents.
Oscar de la Renta gloves for gardening!! bwaaaaaha....
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