The Obama’s Will Plant Organic Garden

In an effort to promote healthy eating, the first family will be planting a vegetable garden on the South grounds of the White House. Although the 16-acre compound is maintained by the National Park Service, they won’t be doing the sowing and planting. The White House residence staff will take care of all that.

First Lady Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey’s “O” magazine, in the April issue, “We want to use it as a point of education, to talk about health and how delicious it is to eat fresh food, and how you can take that food and make it part of a healthy diet.”

A variety of organic food and sustainable agriculture advocates have been pressing the Obama’s to plant such a garden.

If the Obama’s plant an organic garden on the White House grounds, it could have persuasive potential to generate tons of kindred gardens, not only in the United States but also around the world. Not a bad thought.