What started as a request by Michael Pollan in October has turned into reality. In October, the food author wrote an article specifically asking then-president-elect Obama to build a garden at the White House:
I don't need to tell you that ripping out even a section of the WhiteLast Friday, Michelle Obama put shovel to dirt and started a garden on the South Lawn, right where Pollan said one would be perfect. The New York Times, which ran Pollan's article, acted like a proud parent and featured the garden on the front page of both the Friday and Saturday newspaper.House lawn will be controversial... the
South Lawn is one of the most beautiful in the country. But imagine all
the energy, water and petrochemicals it takes to make it that way... as deeply as Americans feel about their
lawns, the agrarian ideal runs deeper still, and making this particular
plot of American land productive, especially if the First Family gets
out there and pulls weeds now and again, will provide an image even
more stirring than that of a pretty lawn: the image of stewardship of
the land, of self-reliance and of making the most of local sunlight to
feed one's family and community. The fact that surplus produce from the
South Lawn Victory Garden (and there will be literally tons of it) will
be offered to regional food banks will make its own eloquent statement.
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