The Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, March 19, 2009
First Farmers
How great is this? In an effort to promote healthy eating, President Obama and his family will be planting a vegetable garden at the White House.

No doubt it's a PR stunt. But if that's what it takes to get Americans out of the fast-food line, I'm all for it.

Yesterday ABC News reported that the new White House vegetable garden will be planted on the South grounds, in view of the main house. The White House staff will handle the planting and sowing. Let's hope every once in awhile, the first family pulls on a pair of grubby jeans and gets dirt under their fingernails.

In the April issue of "O" magazine, Mrs. Obama told Oprah Winfrey, "We want to use it as a point of education, to talk about health and how delicious it is to eat fresh food, and how you can take that food and make it part of a healthy diet."

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   Kathy Stephenson has been the food writer at The Tribune since 2000. Prior to that she covered education and was a general assignment reporter for Utah's largest daily newspaper. A Utah native, Stephenson's first job was picking zucchini on her grandparent's Kaysville farm. Every Christmas, Stephenson's neighbors and colleagues look forward to getting a plate of her baklava. Last year, she gave away nearly 300 pieces.