"Michelle Obama’s celebrated White House garden is overrun with weeds and wildlife — yet another victim of the shutdown, according to a popular blogger on all things food-related at the White House.
“The vegetables filling the 1,500 square-foot plot are now rotting away on the vines and in the boxed beds, thanks to the mandate for ‘minimal maintenance’ placed on the skeletal crew of National Park Service gardeners who remain on duty at 1600 Penn.,” reports Eddie Gehman Kohan, the creator of Obama Foodorama, a website that chronicles the administration’s food...
Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses, who is furloughed, usually holds weekly garden weeding sessions, but those have also been canceled during the appropriations hiatus.
The plight of the garden is not just a culinary concern — though the White House does regularly feature the produce and herbs in State Dinners and in high-profile gifts — but also a community one as a portion of the crop is regularly donated to Miriam’s Kitchen, a non-profit serving the homeless. Every fall, the White House donates about 500 pounds of garden produce to Miriam’s."
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Oh the humanity...
