“The White House chefs have been leading school groups on educational tours through First Lady Michelle Obama’s Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn since 2010, but these are now cancelled along with all other White House tours, East Wing spokesman Hannah August told Obama Foodorama. The White House on Tuesday announced that due to staffing reductions from the $85 billion spending cuts known as the ‘sequester,’ public tours of the historic mansion will be cancelled beginning this Saturday, March 9 and continuing indefinitely. Source: Obama Foodorama”—http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/03/sequester-squash-white-house-cancels.html