Posts Tagged ‘gardens’

The Irish Turn to the White House for Inspiration on Grow-Your-Own Foods

Bloom in the Park, Ireland's largest gardening event of the year, is in full swing in Dublin where the locals, perhaps for the first time in, say, nine years, are looking to the White House for inspiration on matters of food. Bloom organizers have built a replica of First Lady Michelle Obama's vegetable garden. Why? [...]

Alice Waters: One Hippie Chick Who Gets Things Done

Say what you will about Alice Waters—that she's given too much credit for the local/sustainable movement, that she wasn't the chef who really put Chez Panisse on the map—but she did help push the White House to plant the first vegetable garden since World War II. The slow movement now has one powerful mouthpiece.