ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 15, 2010) \u2013 First Lady Katie O\u2019Malley will celebrate National Gardening Month and Maryland Grow it Eat it Month by planting a food garden at Government House for the second consecutive year.\u00a0 Master Gardeners and youth apprentice gardeners and their families from Kinder Farm Park in Anne Arundel County will join the First Lady to plant the garden and refreshments made with items from the garden will be served.\u00a0\u00a0 First Lady O\u2019Malley will also announce the first ever Master Gardener\/Government House Gardening Lecture Series to teach more Marylanders how to create their own backyard garden and grow their own food.\u00a0 The lecture series begin in May and will be held once a month through October.<\/p>\n
First Lady O\u2019Malley is partnering with University of Maryland Extension\u2019s Home and Garden Information Center and Master Gardeners to promote the \u201cGrow It Eat It, campaign\u201d which encourages Maryland families to improve health and save money by growing fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs using sustainable practices.\u00a0 The campaign hopes to encourage 1 million Marylanders to produce their own affordable, healthy food.\u00a0 More information on the campaign and the University of Maryland\u2019s Master Gardener program can be found at www.growit.umd.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n Last year, Maryland became one of the first states, if not the first state in the nation, to have a backyard food garden at the Governor\u2019s home.\u00a0 The vegetable garden sets a realistic example of what Maryland families can do in their own backyards.<\/p>\n The event will take place this SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Government House in Annapolis.\u00a0 __________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FIRST LADY KATIE O\u2019MALLEY TO OPEN THIS YEAR\u2019S \u201cGROW IT EAT IT\u201d GARDEN; ANNOUNCE NEW GARDENING LECTURE SERIES AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE ###<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 15, 2010) \u2013 First Lady Katie O\u2019Malley will celebrate National Gardening Month and Maryland Grow it Eat it Month by planting a food garden at Government House for the second consecutive year.\u00a0 Master Gardeners and youth apprentice gardeners and their families from Kinder Farm Park in Anne Arundel County will join the Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWHEN:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday, April 17, 2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11:00 a.m.
\nWHERE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Government House 110 State Circle Annapolis, MD<\/p>\n