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First lady, kids get to work in the White House garden

By Mary MacVean
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First Lady Michelle Obama joined some elementary school children in the White House garden again today to harvest vegetables.

‘These sweet potatoes are huge! They’re huge. So, hopefully, you guys will be able to pull up some of these huge sweet potatoes,’ she told students from Bancroft and Kimball schools.

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Joining them was Jim Adams, the chief horticulturist from the White House. The first lady told the children, according to the White House press office, that he ‘helped us figure out where to put things, how to make it beautiful and to make sure that the food was going to grow.’

She said that more than 740 pounds of food has been harvested from the garden. And she had the children guessing at the cost of planting the garden. Guesses reached as high as $6,000. But the cost was $180, she said.

-- Mary MacVean

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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