Before jet-setting to New York today for another Saturday night date with her husband, First Lady Michelle Obama spent yesterday at Bancroft Elementary School in Mount Pleasant, where students are tending a garden — similar to the one on the South Lawn of the White House which supplies veggies to both the White House and Miriam’s Kitchen.

After checking out the blooms, the First Lady delivered some remarks:

We’ve already used about 80 pounds of lettuce. We’ve eaten it, we served it at a big fancy luncheon that I did for other congressional and senate spouses, and they just raved over it. And I told everybody about the work that you did to plant it, how you came back again and again, and how you’re working in your own gardens.

So everything is going well. We also shared some of the lettuce and some of the honey with Miriam’s Kitchen, as well, so already the work that you’re doing is not just feeding our family and the staff and our guests at the White House, but it’s feeding people who may not have anything to eat.

Good deal. It makes sense: the Obamas are obviously burger fanatics; what better way to get toppings for patties they make at home?