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This Friday, Michelle Obama announced, “We’re going to have a beehive.” Her announcement was greeted with “ooohs” and “ahhhs” from Washington-area school children wielding shovels and rakes and hoes to help with the garden groundbreaking. “I’m glad you’re excited, but because my kids aren’t very excited about the beehive. But we’re going to try to make our own honey.”
The beehive is part of a kitchen garden project that the First Lady has been excited about for some time. The venture is popularly being called the White House Kitchen Garden. It is being planned on the White House’s South Lawn. It is the first such planting attempt in the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt installed a victory garden during World War II.
The First Lady is being helped by assistant White House chef Sam Kass, who used to cook for the Obamas in Chicago, and they have begun work on an organic fruit and vegetable garden. The First Lady intends to plant mint, lettuces, berries and perennial herbs among other organic fruits and vegetable. The harvest from the White House Kitchen Garden is to be used in both the White House kitchen and a nearby soup kitchen.
The First Lady hopes the farming will get her daughters, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, more interested in eating vegetables. “With my kids, especially if they were involved in planting it and picking it, they were much more curious about giving it a try.”