Mission: put onion linked to First Lady's grandpa in White House garden
Washington
IT just took a devoted seed executive and a glamorous first lady who's expressed little overt interest in the famous White House Kitchen Garden that her predecessor left.
Determined to give Melania Trump what Burpee chief executive George Ball calls "a literal piece of home", the Pennsylvania seed company has been working since the beginning of the year to locate the seeds of the elusive "Raka Red" onion, much to the delight of the tiny agricultural community in Slovenia that Mrs Trump's family is originally from.
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