How cool is this. There's our amazing First Lady, on the first day of spring, digging with a bunch of 5th graders from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington, DC. They're preparing for the White House's vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden.
The school kids are experienced gardeners having managed a vegetable garden at their school for the past 7 years.
It's going to be a big garden -- 1,100 square feet, and you'll be able to see it off of E Street. Most of the heavy weeding and maintenance will be done by the White House gardeners, but the school kids will have a role, and the Obamas say they'll be working on it too.
The White House chefs are thrilled. According to the NY Times:
The Obamas will feed their love of Mexican food with cilantro, tomatilloes and hot peppers. Lettuces will include red romaine, green oak leaf, butterhead, red leaf and galactic. There will be spinach, chard, collards and black kale. For desserts, there will be a patch of berries. And herbs will include some more unusual varieties, like anise hyssop and Thai basil. A White House carpenter who is a beekeeper will tend two hives for honey.
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