I applaud First Lady Michelle Obama for planting a garden at the White House…really applaud her. The following are excerpts from a story on AOL News on August 31, 2009…
Growing in the 1,100-square-foot garden are broccoli, peas, peppers, collards, carrots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, blueberries and a variety of herbs. The produce feeds the first family and guests at state dinners, and some also goes to a local soup kitchen.
For Mrs. Obama, it was an opportunity not only to improve nutrition for her own family, but to inspire Americans to make better choices with their diets.
“The garden was something that I always thought about,” she said. “I was probably like most busy mothers, you know, a busy working family, and I would find it difficult to feed my family in a healthy way, quickly.”
Mrs. Obama said she made an effort to change her family’s eating habits during he presidential campaign by adding more fruits and vegetables, cutting down on sugar and processed foods and eating out less. “I saw some really immediate results with just those minor changes,” she said. “So I thought, well, if I could help other families learn these small changes in my role as first lady, that would be a good thing.”
Mrs. Obama also emphasized the importance of families sharing meals together at the dinner table. “We’ve found that we’ve been able to do that, and part of the message is, if the president of the United States can sit down with his family and have dinner, hopefully more families can find the time to do the same thing.”
i like Michelle Obama because she is more charismatic than the previous first lady,