Its fall harvest time and we here at MOW can’t get enough of the First Lady’s garden. We’ve been down from day one; from the planting of seeds used at Monticello to the very first harvest and the whole toxic sludge debacle. I was excited to see the First Lady and her team of student gardeners, from Bancroft and Kimball Elementary Schools, get to work Thursday on the South Lawn. Mrs O totally rocks! These children will never forget this day. I just hope that the White House Kitchen Garden becomes a First Lady tradition and that DC school children for years to come can look forward to planting and harvesting with future First Ladies.
This was the WhiteHouse.gov photo of the day… 
Love it!!!
White House House kitchen staff along with reps from Miriam’s Kitchen, providers of healthy, homemade meals for the DC area homeless, were also on hand to help. According to the First Lady, 740 pounds of food have already been harvested from the garden, for the low cost of $170. The garden’s harvest will be donated to Miriam’s Kitchen.
“For fall, in addition to the sweet potatoes, the children gathered wheel barrels full of carrots, lettuce and enormous fennel plants, one of which required the full weight of the first lady and her team members to extract from the ground. “You’re going to eat your vegetables, right?” said Obama in that way parents have of turning a question into a decree. After all their hard work and before settling in for an afternoon snack of apples and cider, the young farmers gathered for a group photograph, proudly posing with their vegetables, the First Lady and her one very muddy knee.” Robin Givhan, The Washington Post
Posted by Aminah Hanan
6 Comments, Comment or Ping
BC
I absolutely love this woman. Look at the size of those juicy sweet potatoes, look at those baskets of carrots, lettuce and other goodies.
Haters, please stop hating for one moment and be honest (for once) in saying that this woman is amazing. I mean I knock no one but how anyone can compare Michelle Obama to other First ladies is beyond me. Michelle deserves to stand head and shoulders above ALL other first ladies (well, maybe not Eleanor Roosevelt (yet)….). I have never seen a more harder working first lady in my life. Daily, she is out being photographed, working hard and doing good in the community.
I’ve run out of words.
Oct 30th, 2009
Tiffany
This women is amazing! She is everything I inspire to be when I grow up. Hopefully going to school and taking care of business will allow me to fill shoes half her size (Because I know I cant fill hers!) so, I can become a better women, mother, and human. =)
Oct 30th, 2009
red
Halloween pictures from the White House!
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackeens_for_Obama
Oct 31st, 2009
Aminah Hanan
I love the WH garden too. I’m a gardener, but saddened that I didn’t get to plant one this year. We were getting our garage removed. But I’m going to do it up big this spring. I’m wondering how many people will start gardens inspired by the First Lady. If it didn’t get so damn cold in Chicago I might consider having a green house.
Oct 31st, 2009
Mozell
This garden looks so good. I hope to be able to do the same one day. I love her clothes. She does not dress like an old woman, nor does she try too hard, it comes so natural. Those hues of purple work so well together with her skin tone. She is the most inspiring First Lady, no most inspiring person p-e-r-i-o-d.
Oct 31st, 2009
Rosebudd0328
I love our first lady, she just makes me so proud!!
Nov 1st, 2009