It's great that Michelle Obama is encouraging gardening, although this seemed to evolve after news articles and comments appeared that it would be nice the Obamas had a White House kitchen garden and set an example for others. So....I wonder, is this gardening to get points among the people and show off stylish gardening clothes, or really to promote a beneficial practice.
This certainly was a good photo op for Mrs. Obama; some news media spent more time describing the stylish gardening clothes and the names of the designers than gardening. (Great PR op, too, for the designers.) Is the welfare of the citizens the aim or PR for Mrs. Obama? Let's hope it's a little of both...a humanitarian gesture with a spin-off about gardening clothes.
However, how many people really garden in carefully coordinated designer clothes that present a great photo op? Anyway it wouldn't do for the First Lady to grovel in the dirt like most of us who plant gardens and get our hands dirty...and knees and even face.
Gardeners are enthusiastic, the news media is excited to write about something other than political posturing, and the White House grounds will see an agricultural trend perhaps for the first time since the cows and sheep, kept by early presidents, disappeared.
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