He listened! Obama listened!
We chanted during PowerShift’s march on the Capital Coal Plant and even later that night outside of the While House calling for “Food, Not Bombs! Plant a Garden on the White House Lawn!” It sounded good, and I remember seeing the lights go on in an upstairs window as we sang late at night, but maybe that was just a twinkle in the White House’s eye.
Either way, I just learned that Obama did plant a nice big vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Gardens, and things are coming up golden. They’ve 90 pounds of food, enough produce for the White House kitchens and local soup kitchens as well. Good and always with honor have released a detailed map of the White House Garden – let’s hope more people follow suit, eating as locally as physically possible, their own backyards!
I walked past the White House the other day, and saw that there is indeed a garden, and it is doing quite well. A 90 lb. garden on the White House lawn, however, doesn’t outweigh high-tonnage bombs that are the hard-fist of an imperial agenda with a new figure head. I like organic gardens, but we shouldn’t be too congratulatory over cosmetic changes.