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a MUST read: Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden

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Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden

By MARIAN BURROS
Published: March 19, 2009

The New York Times
WASHINGTON — On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.
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