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White House Garden is home to heirloom seeds
Posted on Tue, September 01, 2009 by Jerusha Klemperer
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Click here to check out the new AOL News video all about the White House Kitchen Garden.
In the video, White House chef Sam Kass explains that the seeds in the garden’s Thomas Jefferson bed came from Monticello. An accompanying garden drawing shows the vegetables planted in that bed—one of which is Tennis Ball Lettuce, a variety on the Slow Food USA Ark of Taste!
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From Laraine Abbey-Katzev RN, CNS on Wed, September 02, 2009
First Lady Michelle Obama is to be congratulated on her “Edible Garden”. We need to follow the “Edible Garden” founder, Alice Water’s, lead and plant “Edible Gardens everywhere—homes, schools, neighborhoods, etc. Organic, all natural, nutrient-dense, whole foods meals are the only way back to health and economic stability.
From Deborah Phillips on Sun, October 11, 2009
With all the debate about health care, it would be great if the White House garden could include an apothecary garden. Many of my customers are now expanding their home gardens to include more and more medicinal herbs - everything from chamomile to more exotic herbs such as andrographis, credited with stopping the 1918 flu epidemic in India where it is widely used. I know that science is just waking up to many of the ancient cures and treatments - and as they study them they are discovering there really is hard science to their use.
