While the first family has been traveling abroad, the little veggie garden in their backyard turned two years old over the weekend.
The Obama Foodorama blog examined all that’s happened since the first lady broke ground on March 20, 2009. At the time the FLOTUS said in an interview with the New York Times that the whole family would take part. Two years later, President Obama has mainly watched the plantings and harvests from the sidelines and a White House staffer had no recollection of first daughters Sasha and Malia doing any weeding.
She “may have been joking,” the staffer told Obama Foodorama about the first lady’s statement.
That being said, several dozen local schoolchildren have gotten their hands dirty alongside Michelle Obama and White House Chef Sam Kass each time the garden has needed tending.
It was announced last week that the first lady’s first book would be about her experiences in the White House Kitchen Garden and about healthy eating. The book will be released next spring, just in time for the garden’s third birthday.
