{"id":2857,"date":"2009-03-23T09:32:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2009-03-23T09:57:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:57:57","slug":"michelle-obama-and-amy-macs-organic-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/03\/23\/michelle-obama-and-amy-macs-organic-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama and Amy Mac&#8217;s Organic Gardens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2859\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"obama-garden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/\/obama-garden1.png\" alt=\"Michelle Obama's White House Garden\" width=\"121\" height=\"160\" \/>Michelle Obama and I are both adjusting to our new surroundings after relocating in January.\u00c2\u00a0 We are also both planning and starting our own organic kitchen gardens.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a few differences, of course,\u00c2\u00a0 my garden is 32 square feet and Michelle&#8217;s is 1,100 square feet.\u00c2\u00a0 Michelle has a team of people to help her maintain her garden, while Chris and I will be doing all of our manual labor.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite any differences, the goal is the same &#8211; sustainability.\u00c2\u00a0 We are both growing healthy, pesticide-free vegetables to enjoy in the months to come.<\/p>\n<p>Chris and I are working off of a square foot gardening plan developed by Mel Bartholomew, which allows us to grow the same amount of vegetables of a 160-foot garden, in just 32 square feet.\u00c2\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2860 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Amy Mac Seed Starters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/\/picture-14.png\" alt=\"Amy Mac Seed Starters\" width=\"184\" height=\"98\" \/>We will also be adding some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hangingtomato.com\/?cid=528002\">Topsy Turvys<\/a> for our pepper and tomato plants.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point, we are in the beginning stages and have built our raised box, added soil and started our seeds indoors.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m going to make our compost bin so we can begin recycling our food waste and create nutrient rich soil for our continuous planting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2861\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Square Foot Gardening\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/\/picture-23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-23.png 928w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-23-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Obama Organic Garden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2009\/03\/23\/michelle-obama-to-plant-edible-garden\/\">Michelle Obama To Plant White House Edible Garden<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20267137,00.html\">Michelle Obama&#8217;s New Garden Will Have D.C. Buzzing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/20\/dining\/20garden.html\">Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama and I are both adjusting to our new surroundings after relocating in January.\u00c2\u00a0 We are also both planning and starting our own organic kitchen gardens.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a few differences, of course,\u00c2\u00a0 my garden is 32 square feet and Michelle&#8217;s is 1,100 square feet.\u00c2\u00a0 Michelle has a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}