(Screen grab taken from 'Inside the White House Garden' video.)
Yep. Inside the White House garden - and not manicured lawns but the little Presidential Veg Patch which has been supplying salad to state dinners these past months. First Lady Michelle Obama talks about her beliefs in the benefits of home grown food, the tangible effects of this in her own family, and re-educating our children about food and diet so that the message is passed on for generations to come. I love the fact that she's getting behind this message as the First Lady of Fast Food Nation - and not just talking, but doing.
The video is also worth watching if only to see how they prepared their patch for planting (covering the essentials of soil testing and re-fertilizing), and a brief history on the Victory Garden which Eleanore Roosevelt had there during WWII and Thomas Jefferson's heritage seeds.
If you've got a few minutes (actually, 7.44 minutes) to spare, take a look. I hope you'll be glad you did. And I hope you'll be inspired to go out to your garden/balcony/windowbox/planter and sow a few seeds yourself. You'll be in good company.
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