White House sludge update
Meanwhile...
Obama Foodorama, a well-researched and well-written blog about Obama administration's food policies, reports that a retired White House groundkeeper confirms that reconditioned sludge was only applied once to the White House south lawn, in 1985.
Though President Clinton issued a broad directive to institute more environmentally friendly landscaping techniques, he was not in the White House when the sludge was applied, according to White House groundskeeper Irvin Williams, who retired last year after 59 years of service. That would have been during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
As bogger Eddie Gehman Kohan points out, the Clintons, too, have been "slandered" as having "poisoned" the White House grounds during this crazy campaign to discredit Michelle Obama's healthy eating initiative.
Categories: White House Vegetable Garden
Comments
Probably mean 1995.
I feel this has been overblown. I am sure they looked into the health issue and analyzed it. I would assume that the groundcrew is one of the best in the country. (next to Augusta Nationals crew)
Posted by: Jason | August 13, 2009 3:58 PM
I thought this was a racial thing, but now that Clinton is being attacked it appears it's a "Republican boohoo we're not in power" kind of thing. Gee and some of my best friends are Republican.
Posted by: Reggie | August 14, 2009 11:46 AM
The sludged White House garden story discredits the use of sewage sludge as 'fertilizer' on lawns and gardens.
Michelle Obama, like every other family who moves to a new home, had no way to know that industrial wastes had been used to fertilize her garden soil.
Posted by: Maureen Reilly | August 14, 2009 1:21 PM