The land supply vegetables to the White House kitchen
More than 20 students in fifth grade -10 years-of Bancroft Elementary School in Washington, helped yesterday to the first lady to plow a plot of 100 square meters in which 55 plants have been planted the first family favorite: arugula, spinach, broccoli, onions and carrots among them. There will not be, as confirmed by the White House, beet, because the president does not like the vegetable.
Besides being a way to stock up on food in case the crisis ends by imposing budgetary restraint also in the White House, the act of planting vegetables in the seat of the presidency is steeped in an ecology that Obama defended his campaign to plant vegetables and to eat food grown without artificial fertilizers or pesticides is a way of respecting the environment, reduce consumption of products raised on large plantations. The
Obama and wanted to acknowledge the work of renowned chef Alice Waters environmentalist, calling for local and organic production of vegetables and has been calling the creation of a garden at the White House since Bill Clinton came to the residence 1993. "This is the true garden of victory!" He said in a public letter sent to the president. Besides
assist in the diet of the president's daughters, Malia and Sasha, this garden is cheap. The land has gone free. And the cost of all the seeds did not exceed 200 dollars (147 euros).
Source: THE COUNTRY.
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