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#1171544 - 04/28/09 06:33 PM
White House seeks to bankrupt greengrocers!
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#1171557 - 04/28/09 06:38 PM
Obama Exploits Child Labor
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Twenty-six elementary schoolchildren wielded shovels, rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows to help first lady Michelle Obama break ground on the first day of spring for an organic produce and herb garden on the White House grounds.
Crops to be planted in the coming weeks on the 1,100-square-foot, L-shaped patch near the fountain on the South Lawn include spinach, broccoli, various lettuces, kale and collard greens, assorted herbs and blueberries, blackberries and raspberries.
“We’re going to try to make our own honey here as well,” Mrs. Obama told the kids from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington before they got to work on Friday. The school has its own community garden.
The students will be brought back to the White House next month to help with the planting, and after that to help harvest and cook some of the produce in the mansion’s kitchen. The first harvest is expected by late April.
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#1171558 - 04/28/09 06:38 PM
Re: White House seeks to bankrupt greengrocers!
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Great story. I'm happy to see Michelle putting those sleeveless outfits to good use!
But seriously - are you panning this? Having a home garden is good. It teaches you how to farm, and you get free food from it when everything comes in. I think it's great that the first lady is highlighting home gardens.
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#1171569 - 04/28/09 06:41 PM
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I tried growing a bacon tree.
Not only didn't it work, I wasted a piece of bacon in the dirt.
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#1171571 - 04/28/09 06:42 PM
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define 'wielded' 
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#1171577 - 04/28/09 06:44 PM
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define 'weilded' Spell it.
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#1171582 - 04/28/09 06:45 PM
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'i'-'t'.
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#1171593 - 04/28/09 06:49 PM
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great, another President with indentured servitude in his past...
and clearly Mrs. O didn't have this statement vetted, as "bees" make honey, not people...
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#1171595 - 04/28/09 06:50 PM
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great, another President with indentured servitude in his past...
and clearly Mrs. O didn't have this statement vetted, as "bees" make honey, not people... I thought she was making a reference to "Honey Dippers". 
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#1171718 - 04/28/09 08:12 PM
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incredible!!!!
two different threads from the same news story!
well done Barbie!!!!
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#1171743 - 04/28/09 08:26 PM
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#1171819 - 04/28/09 10:07 PM
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::whisper:: it's a joke, ask Bugs ::/whisper:: I get it, but it may be too subtle for many of our friends, Dr. Gieger. 
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#1171833 - 04/28/09 10:39 PM
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That's a good-sized garden. I hope there are conservation efforts to minimize the waste of water in this project.
BTW, it has been my experience that blueberries, blackberries and raspberries are better once established for several years.
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#1171959 - 04/29/09 01:05 PM
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does this mean my local WholeFoods is going bankrupt?
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