Harvest Time at the White House Organic Garden

The New York Times Caucus blog reports that Michelle Obama harvested the first vegetables from the White House garden with students from Bancroft Elementary School:

After weeks of digging and planting, watering and weeding, it was harvest time on Tuesday in the White House garden.

First Lady Michelle Obama was joined by a group of elementary school students who harvested 73 pounds of lettuce, 12 pounds of snap peas and one cucumber from the vegetable patch. (The garden also produced beans, kale, collards, broccoli and chard.

White House Associate Chef Sam Kass emphasized that no fertilizer or herbicides had been used in the garden. He said the soil was fortified with crab meal from the Chesapeake Bay, green sand compost and lime powder.

-Mark