White House Kitchen Garden

White House Kitchen Garden

contemporary government-endorsed gardening

White house staff collecting vegetables in the garden. A photograph form Michelle Obama's book. The white house kitchen staff tends the vegetable garden that Michelle Obama wanted planted as a way to show the American population that gardening and eating healthy food is important. This image highlights the continuity of government-endorsed gardening in American history.

Michelle Obama

Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 69.

Crown Publishers, New York

2012

Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers

English