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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 05:42 PM Jul 2017

Michelle Obama's White House garden?

Has anyone heard what has become of the garden Michelle Obama planted on the White House grounds?

Knowing of Trump's hate for everything "Obama",
I'm guessing it has been ignored and returned to weeds.

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Michelle Obama's White House garden? (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jul 2017 OP
Probably turned into a putting green. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jul 2017 #1
That was my thought too. BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #5
trump probably urinated on it chelsea0011 Jul 2017 #2
That would provide high nitrogen fertilizer. Igel Jul 2017 #11
It's gone the way of Jimmy Carter's solar panels jberryhill Jul 2017 #3
Spite seems to be the common denominator for most GOP actions. NT Bleacher Creature Jul 2017 #9
It is part of the public tour Sophiegirl Jul 2017 #4
Burpee Seed Company and the National Park Service have pitched in Tanuki Jul 2017 #6
I don't think it would surprise anyone if he had it concreted over. OnDoutside Jul 2017 #8
I understood that it was designated as part of the National Park system missingthebigdog Jul 2017 #7
Most likely plowed up and paved over n/t Rosco T. Jul 2017 #10

Igel

(35,350 posts)
11. That would provide high nitrogen fertilizer.
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 07:26 PM
Jul 2017

And micronutrients.

Not sure it would count as "organic."

Sophiegirl

(2,338 posts)
4. It is part of the public tour
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 05:52 PM
Jul 2017

Pretty sure the staff and volunteers maintain it.

Not sure what they do with the produce. You know Cheeto wouldn't put a vegetable anywhere near his mouth.

Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
6. Burpee Seed Company and the National Park Service have pitched in
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 06:11 PM
Jul 2017
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/us/politics/white-house-garden-michelle-obama.html

...."In the physical and financial sense, the garden’s preservation is guaranteed. In October 2016, W. Atlee Burpee & Company and the Burpee Foundation, its philanthropic counterpart, jointly donated $2.5 million to the National Park Foundation to ensure care for the plot for years to come.

According to Mrs. Trump’s communications director, Stephanie Grisham, the White House kitchen will cook with the homegrown vegetables and will donate the remaining harvest to charity. Ms. Grisham also said that the Trump family planned to continue the educational nature of the garden.

But the White House’s June harvest was carried out solely by the National Park Service, and administrators at the local Bancroft and Tubman schools, whose students frequented the garden over the last eight years, said they had not been invited back since the transition."
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missingthebigdog

(1,233 posts)
7. I understood that it was designated as part of the National Park system
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 06:15 PM
Jul 2017

I think a seed company (Burpee?) donated to fund it, and that excess harvest was to go to homeless shelters in the DC area. . . .

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