local organic at the White House

[Jeffrey Moore]

Check it out! 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/dining/19garden-web.html?ref=dining 

 

[Joyce Sasser]

Had heard it was going to happen but had not seen the evidence....this
was one of the things pressed hard by the folks with the changes voted
on via the internet to present to Obama ...thought that very exciting
and it is really wonderful to see this actually coming to pass and
Michelle Obama taking the lead on this on the national
level....wonderful. J

[Stephen]

I found an interesting community garden in Washington, DC across the
street -- Independence Ave. SW -- from the National Air & Space Museum
last year. There are a number of gardens on or near the Mall, flower,
butterfly, etc.Not far from the community garden are the National
Botanical Gardens and various gardens around the Smithsonian Castle
and the National Museum of the American Indian. I would be happy to
provide further information if anyone is interested. The Obamas are
johnny come latelys when it comes to gardening in the nation's
capital . (The community garden may have to relocate because I was
told that the land it occupies is destined to be used for a memorial
to our 34th president, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
There is a photo at this link: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/18505709
)

On Mar 20, 10:33 am, Joyce Sasser <jo...@sasser.com> wrote:
> Had heard it was going to happen but had not seen the evidence....this

> was one of the things pressed hard by the folks with the changes votedu

[Stephen]

Concerning gardens in Washington, D.C. : the Smithsonian has a Victory
Garden at the National History Museum which you can learn about at
http://americanhistory.si.edu/house/yourvisit/victorygarden.asp ,
I don't know which of the gardens I have mentioned are organic except
that the butterfly garden probably is for obvious reasons ( website:
http://www.gardens.si.edu/horticulture/gardens/nmnh/butterfly.html ).
If they aren't organic they probably use a minimum amount of
pesticides. There was hardly no one to talk to at the community garden
across from the Air & Space Museum. Many of these gardens along the
Mall belong to the Smithsonian which maintains an observation beehive
in the National Museum of Natural History so they are probably very
careful about what material they apply to their gardens. Killing off
butterflies or bees is not in their best interest. Although I do not
want to let any air out of First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts, the
gardens I have mentioned are publically accessible. Often when I
visited the community garden I was the only one there!

I visit there several times a year. When I do, I always make a point
to visit my favorite garden, a flower garden, the Mary Livingston
Ripley Garden --http://www.gardens.si.edu/horticulture/gardens/Ripley/
ripley1.html . It is a gem of a garden on a narrow strip of land
between the Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum. I hope this information
is of interest to this group even though it is not restricted to
organic vegetable gardening. In my gardening I do not separate flowers
from vegetables.

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