Who tends to the White House Kitchen Garden?
The garden will be tended by Mrs. Obama as well as Dale Haney, Grounds Superintendent for the White House, and the White House kitchen staff, including Sam Kass, Assistant White House Chef and Food Initiative Coordinator. They are getting a lot of great help from 5th graders at Bancroft Elementary School, a Washington, DC public school. According to an interview with Mrs. Obama in the New York Times, “virtually the entire Obama family, including the president, will pull weeds, “whether they like it or not,” Mrs. Obama said with a laugh. “Now Grandma, my mom, I don’t know.” Her mother, she said, will probably sit back and say: “Isn’t that lovely.
