After 50 years of living in a 3-bedroom, 21/2-bath house with a yard, a garden, a lawn and all the things that go with suburbia, I have moved into a two-bedroom condominium.

To Michelle Obama, her White House garden is more than a plot of land. It's also a soapbox.

To Michelle Obama, her White House garden is more than a plot of land. It's also a soapbox. The South Lawn garden has given Mrs. Obama a platform to speak out about the country's childhood obesity problem, extol the benefits of eating fresh food, and teach children early to appreciate vegetables. It also has offered Mrs. Obama another way to open the White House to people who don't normally ...

White House Garden Treehugger Shipping in flowers for events has a big carbon footprint as does lawncare. Too bad the Obamas didn't opt for native bees instead. ...