Small Victory!

The White House goes local. Michael Pollan called for it in his letter to the President in NYT magazine last fall and the Obamas deliver.

A couple weeks ago Michelle Obama broke ground on the first vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt too many years ago. As an avid food grower myself I got very excited and its ORGANIC. Some of the vegetables:

cilantro, tomatillos and hot peppers. Lettuces: red romaine, green oak leaf, butterhead, red leaf and galactic. There will be spinach, chard, collards and black kale. A patch of berries. And herbs : anise hyssop and Thai basil plus more.

And to top it all off they also have two hives for honey!!

I am so excited...but seriously the whole lawn of the White House should be organic...can you imagine how much fertilizer is used on that thing??