Timeline: The Rise of Government Endorsed Gardening (Part 2 of 2)
Timeline of gardening history in America
This timeline highlights the major periods in American history where the government endorsed and encouraged the United States to participate in the growing of a garden. It shows that government-endorsed gardening is deeply rooted in United States history and has been part of our political and social culture since the very foundations of our nation.
Jaime Secrist
2014
Jaime Secrist
The Readington Community Garden, Readington Township, New Jersey
Contemporary government-endorsed gardening
New Jersey community working their community garden. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 91.
Crown Publishers
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
Let's Move
contemporary government-endorsed gardening
Let's Move, youth at the White House Kitchen garden. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 49.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
Great Soil for a Great Garden
Contemporary government-endorsed gardening
White house employees fertilizing the garden. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 65.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
The White House Team
Contemporary government-endorsed gardening
White House employees tending the garden. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 87.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
The White House Team
Contemporary government-endorsed gardening
White house employees tending the garden. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 87.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
Growing our Garden
Contemporary Government-Endorsed gardening
White house employees tending the garden. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 86.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
Gardens of Service
Contemporary Government-endorsed gardening
Food bank community garden sign. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 94.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
Gardens To Educate and Inspire Children
Contemporary Government-endorsed gardening
Children visiting the white house gardening. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 136.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
Brooklyn School Makes Empty Spaces Bloom
Contemporary Government-endorsed gardening
A girl tending her garden plot at school, holding up her carrot that she grew. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 141.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English