It’s a secret garden no more.
The White House is kicking off an “Inside the White House” video series on Whitehouse.gov, with the first one featuring first lady Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kass sharing some unknown bits about the first White House garden since Eleanor Roosevelt’s “Victory Gardens.”
To get that perfect soil, Kass said crab meal adds calcium and nitrogen to the dirt. And, of course, the locavore-loving chef added the crabs are from the Chesapeake.
The seeds they planted — arrow peas, prickly spinach and tennis ball lettuce among other veggies — are from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello garden. Did you know Jefferson is the man responsible for seasonal produce, and he had his ambassadors bring him back seeds from their overseas trips?
All of that must be working, as Kass said the garden planted in late March already hard produced 200 pounds of food by July.
