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kestrel91316

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9. Try recommending that folks grow some of their own veggies to help ease food budget crunches and

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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 01:39 PM

Jun 2012

then sit back and watch the complaints about how unfair it is to the poor to suggest they should perhaps do a little pulling up by their own bootstraps by burning a couple of calories. Because growing a couple of tomato plants is such backbreaking labor and takes such vast amounts of land and time..

Yup, right here on DU. And that crowd can be vicious.

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First Lady Michelle Obama talks to AP about the White House Kitchen Garden - pics [View all] Kadie Jun 2012 OP

DU's resident grow-your-own-food-haters to piss all over this thread in 3....2...1..., calling her kestrel91316 Jun 2012 #1

Wow, "grow-your-own-food-haters?" Is there such a thing? (nt) enough Jun 2012 #2

Try recommending that folks grow some of their own veggies to help ease food budget crunches and kestrel91316 Jun 2012 #9

That WH garden looks very healthy! femmocrat Jun 2012 #3

The caption said it was a fig tree. Kadie Jun 2012 #4

I'ts a fig tree. Yummy. skamaria Jun 2012 #5

K&R! Terrific pix! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2012 #6

Spam deleted by Morning Dew (MIR Team) vangore Jun 2012 #7

...profits donated to gardening-related charities & used for the upkeep of WH garden on South lawn. proverbialwisdom Jun 2012 #8