Kate Mitchell Students Headed to the White House

Five  students are headed to Washington D.C. for the White House's spring planting.

Eva Kumsher, Evan Bay Brakke, Morgan Shimanek, Caroline Maifield and Evan Matthews plan to attend the fourth annual White House Kitchen Garden spring planting at 2:15 p.m. Monday.

Michelle Obama planted the White House Kitchen Garden in 2009 as a way to start a conversation about children's health and has included local school children in the planting and harvesting. This year she invited children from across the country, a release from the Ames Community School District said.

Second graders from Mitchell school wrote in letters to the First Lady that they were studying “how to keep our bodies healthy,” the release said.

The students told Obama what they did to keep healthy and discussed the community garden they planted outside their school.

Students also wrote in the letter, “Our teachers let us taste test the food we harvest and we have even had a salad for snack and watermelon from our garden at lunch.”

Read Patch's previous stories on the Kate Mitchell Garden below.