Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (Obama Food-o-rama blog posting)

 http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2010/10/white-house-kitchen-garden-fall-harvest.html

The USDA is running Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food to encourage citizens across America to understand the food chain and eat locally; at the White House, the project could be called Know Your First Lady, Know Your Food. That's something all of America has been doing since Mrs. Obama launched Let's Move! last February, her broad national campaign against childhood obesity. She's drawn global attention to the importance of healthy food and fitness, bringing her message to everyone from world leaders--with vegetable-oriented State Dinners featuring Kitchen Garden crops--to school kids and parents, with visits to communities across America. Her campaign has been very personal: Mrs. Obama has described her experience with food and her family as the jumping-off point for her initiative. The Mom in Chief has expressed deep concern for the next generation, if there aren't changes--both large and small--in America's food system and the way everyone eats. At the Harvest, the First Lady, as she has been at every other Kitchen Garden event, was right down in the dirt with the kids. They got to know exactly how important fresh vegetables are, as the First Lady led the way in plucking and unearthing the crops, and chatted happily about these. (Above: Mrs. Obama and a pumpkin, among the first to ever be grown in the Kitchen Garden)