Government Gardening

The White House is about to get its very own "victory garden" (again) on the South Lawn by the kitchen. Part education, part slow food/local food experiment, the garden will be an example of a sustainable table. How exciting! Famed chef and owner of Chez Panisse Alice Waters is quoted in the above linked article about her own fabulous program "The Edible Schoolyard Project" in which, as part of the school programs, kids grow their own food for consumption in their cafeterias instead of processed foods. Lovely.

Reaching for the sun.

Today, I saw three different people reaching their faces towards the warm Spring sun. They looked relieved, peaceful, and happy for life in that moment.

Potato, Potaaahto

or Potata as my Pennsylvania Dutch relatives would say. Any way you say it, I was super psyched to finally dig up my potato plants in the garden. I had planted a variety of new potato and couldn't wait. I'd researched when to finally dig for them and how. My friend Beth came for the big dig and we took the harvest home....


and fried them up in a pan with just some olive oil, salt and pepper. I garnished them with a green onion we'd pulled from the garden, too.


The thing is.... they were TINY!!! The penny scale should help put it into perspective.


So, what was the solution? Eat them with Shrimp Forks! Tiny or not...they were really tasty. The last potato plant left in the garden seems to have bigger ones growing so fingerlings crossed!