Inside the White House: The Kitchen Garden

First Lady Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kass tell the story of the first garden on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II. This new garden was planted in the Spring of 2009 with the help of local elementary school children and has yielded a constant supply fresh produce for the First Family and White House events.
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Education

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• Obama
• White House
• garden
• fruit
• vegetable
• vegetables
• healthy eating
• kitchen garden

[akumakorgar]

@hrosemd

Does it not occur to you that the White House has always had an entire team of chefs, to prepare food for the President's meals and also for state dinners?

Does it not also occur to you that the White House also has a large staff of groundskeepers to maintain the lawn, the hedges, the fountains? Do you not appreciate the fact that the expense involved in keeping and maintaining a lush green lawn is significantly higher than maintaining a vegetable garden?

[mercnut1]

A very good Idea. as a professional gardener my skills on techiques as a plantmans would help productivity of the garden. I think that are on something that is good for the peoople. the question is are the people listening

[dilan4me]

i wanna see the master bedroom where all the magic happens

[GardenNewbie]

She really did a great thing here, im sure it inspired many more to grow there own food... Now only if she could acknowledge bills like Senate Bill S510 which is trying to make it illegal to grow your own organic food! Where do these bills and laws come from around the same time where our Presidents wife is growing an organic garden!!

[adamscarroll]

michelle obama. american hero.

[amberfwn]

Video gets stuck at 1:26, could be my PC thought :-(

[sustainable2012]

That is why the department of education advocates sustainability and permaculture in our local schools so we can bring back local production!!!

oh wait no it doesn't

[sustainable2012]

but the word permaculture would never be taught in our schools....

Obama is really sustainable!! That is why his energy policy is nuclear proliferation... which makes it Ironic that he goes after countries with the same energy policies...

reminds me of someone who planted another bush in the white house.

OBAMA =

MONSANTO

CITIGROUP

GOLDMAN SACHS

Trilateral Commission (ZBigniew Bryzinski)

don't be fooled

[BeWellMyFriends]

That is a wonderful presentation. There is so much that Michelle said that I couldn't agree with more. I would be more supportive of what she is doing if only her husband's actions didn't so grossly contradict everything that organic farming is and wasn't so horribly destructive to organic farmers.

It makes me very sad that Michelle seems to be all about nourishing the world while her husband Barack is on board with people who are trying to poison it.

[ImaginedWriter]

They have an army of gardeners and cooks, eating healthily is not a problem for them. It's only when they're out of office that it will become an issue.