I say, “Good job!” to the Obamas for their breaking ground for a kitchen garden on the White House lawn.  And this won’t be just a symbolic garden, but one that will grow vegetables, fruit and herbs for use in the White House kitchen, and potentially provide the excess to a local food pantry. 

Proponents of the local food movement have been urging presidents to do this for many years, but the Obamas are the first to actually do it since Eleanor Roosevelt.  I think this will be a boost to the “eat local” movement, as well as to sellers of seeds and vegetable plants.  It may have a positive effect as well on Farmers Markets, as folks fill in the blanks in their diet with veggies they haven’t managed to grow for themselves. 

I’m sure there will be lots of critics of the plan out there (Rush Limbaugh will probably hope all the vegetables die) but I say, “Congratulations, and thank you!”