Michelle Obama’s vision squashed: What’s rotting at the WH?

October 15, 2013 by Janeen Capizola

Whatever will the first lady do now that her pretty White House garden has been destroyed due to the lack of gardening staff furloughed during the shutdown?

What she clearly hasn’t done is get out there and tend to the overgrown garden herself.

And don’t look for any patriots to come mow the grass or help her weed and pick vegetables: Sequestration closed the people’s house to the people.

The Obama Foodorama blog reported on the “dramatic impact” the partial government shutdown has had on Michelle Obama’s Kitchen Garden.

“Weeds are springing up everywhere, and the vegetables that have already fallen off the vines are now mouldering on the ground,” the article said.

“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.”

And those gardeners who do remain on staff aren’t even allowed to pick ripe fruit and vegetables; they are only allowed to water and remove trash.

But “weeds and fallen leaves don’t qualify as ‘trash,’ so the gardeners are not allowed to destroy garden invaders, nor are they allowed to rake,” according to the blog.

Read more:

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/10/15/m...at-the-wh-85288