Live: Gullett Elementary Students Plant Garden With Michelle Obama

First Lady Michelle Obama has invited five students from B.D. Gullett Elementary in East Manatee to attend a Kitchen Garden Planting at the White House on Thursday, April 4.

On Thursday, April 4, Mrs. Obama will join school children from Florida and across the country to plant the White House Kitchen Garden for the fifth year in a row. Mrs. Obama planted a vegetable garden on the South Lawn to initiate a national conversation around the health and well being of our nation – a conversation that evolved into her Let’s Move! initiative to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.

This year, Mrs. Obama invited children from schools that have made exceptional improvements to school lunches through implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.