Goodbye first lawn, hello first garden


	Goodbye first lawn, hello first garden

tedroberson

3-26-2009 9:50 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/25661f6e-2516-48a8-a7c2-f1126a8754e4/7D84772D-0F5A-45D0-83AF-2B64A38D7CEC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008930849_opinb27goodman.html" href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008930849_opinb27goodman.html" style="font-size: 11px;">seattletimes.nwsource.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008930849_opinb27goodman.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/seattletimes.nwsource.com/img/A72AA750-4DC0-4044-AF28-EEAE5D866EDD" alt="First lady Michelle Obama, right and Chef Sam Kass, left, take part in the groundbreaking of the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House March 20. " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008930849_opinb27goodman.html">
<P>BOSTON — You have to admit that this gives new meaning to the idea of a 
"shovel-ready project." There are now 1,100 square feet on the South Lawn of the 
White House being transformed into a kitchen garden. If Americans follow the 
first family's lead, the seed pack will become the new stimulus package. At 
least we'll have something to do with those pitchforks after the AIG bonus 
babies surrender their money.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008930849_opinb27goodman.html"><P>What Michelle and the kids and the crew did the other day was to drive a shovel right into the heart of that American icon: the lawn. They literally took the most pampered lawn in America, dumped it in the wheel barrel and carted it away. All that was missing was a chorus of "This lawn is your lawn."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008930849_opinb27goodman.html">This may be a fertile time for change</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008930849_opinb27goodman.html">If we settle into a view of home as a place we nurture ourselves, we may have a 
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