After weeks of digging and planting, watering and weeding, it was harvest time on Tuesday in the White House garden.First Lady Michelle Obama was joined by a group of elementary school students who harvested 73 pounds of lettuce, 12 pounds of snap peas and one cucumber from the vegetable patch. (The garden also produced beans, kale, collards, broccoli and chard.)
“Today is the culmination of a lot of hard work,” Mrs. Obama told the students from Bancroft Elementary School, who started working on the garden with her in March.
White House Associate Chef Sam Kass emphasized that no fertilizer or herbicides had been used in the garden. He said the soil was fortified with crab meal from the Chesapeake Bay, green sand compost and lime powder. He said that Bo, the family dog, had not eaten any of the vegetables though he noted that “something is nibbling a little bit on the kale.”
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