This Lawn is Your Lawn (pre-election version)

This video is part of Kitchen Gardeners International's "Eat the View" campaign to convert part of the White House lawn into an edible landscape. It features KGI founder, Roger Doiron, digging a new garden on his "white house" lawn.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• food
• agriculture
• organic
• garden
• gardening
• obama
• mccain
• white house
• climate change
• 'food
• security

[georgnicholas]

Good soil is one of the most critical factors to successful farming and it doesn't just appear out of thin air. If we are advocating that thousands (if not millions) of people in the developed world should start home gardening, and every home needs a ton of compost, then the amount of compost needed will be astronomical, as will the energy needed to make and transport it.

[kitchengardeners]

George: we certainly urge people to make their own compost and created a video (at the right) to show people how to do it. You need to know that this new garden is not our only garden. We have a much larger one out back which used up all of our home-made compost. The compost we bought in/brought in for this new garden is organic and locally-produced.

[mampdx]

And while we're at it, we can insist that the solar panels, removed by Reagan, go back on the roof!!

[AirsoftGroupisRule]

Now im going to plant a garden

[GrownintheCity]

Great video! Isn't it great to see that there's a kitchen garden there now?! :)

[swoop1111]

@northwestmike wow, for someone supporting organic & local ag you are a bit hostile.the point i was trying to make was that we left food production & ag up to the "professionals & look where its gotten us. i have been growing food organically & raising hens for eggs in the city for many yrs. without poisoning my neighbors. actually they enjoy it as well. i just want to know what defines "professionals"? & i dont consider myself liberal or conservative - why would you assume that. douche? really

[northwestmike]

@swoop1111 There's no confusion, but I appreciate your patronizing liberal tone, douche. My position is that expecting every American family to grow their own food (or any meaningful portion of it) is incredibly unrealistic and inefficient. I'm 100% in favor of organic food and locally grown food, but there will always be a need for professional farming. It simply ought to be sustainable, organic, and non GMO.

[swoop1111]

@northwestmike i think you may be confusing this concept & the practices of industrial agriculture. you know pesticides, dangerous chem.s like the alar used on apples that was banned in the 80's as a carcinogen & the depletion of nutrients in the soil by use of harmful chemical fertilizers & runnoff from large ag production facilities contaminating groundwater. thats the difference between someone growing food to feed their family & selling garbage for profit. we left it up to the professionals

[flowerbudz32]

nice job i am changeing my rich client to dig up thire lawn to grow better food. That what what i think my mission is! WAKE UP THE HUMAN in the person!

[jas16899]

Wow way to pay an homage to the world by donating the front yard of your American suburban home to becoming a symbol for something you don't even clearly define.

Obama is rich, he doesn't care about your symbols.

[jsb4815]

THIS is a great Idea, and should be done around the globe well done.

jacob Buffett

[bryancostanich]

you're too easy NWMike. :)

you should remember it, because my "ignorant, self-righteous, and arrogant socialist" and "pseudo-intellectual" ass gave you a point for point beat down. hahhahah

anyway, i didn't really care, i just saw the article and it made me laugh remembering you and this video.

this time i don't even care to debate you, you're clearly an idiot.

[northwestmike]

You must be a pretty pathetic fucking loser to try and restart a debate from MONTHS ago. I don't even remember what I wrote. LOL. I just remember your ignorant, self-righteous, and arrogant socialist attitude. The fact of the matter is that the economy and environment would BOTH be WORSE OFF if we had 300 million Americans trying to grow their own food. I know it doesnt fit into your romantic hippie-bullshit paradigm, but its a logistical and scientific fact.

[timaloha]

Sure. I was against plowing up the entire WH lawn to make a veg garden as the video suggests. I am not against a small garden in the rose garden . You'll notice that I said I support the cause such a garden would represent. Fortunately, it was just announced that the Obama's have today started a small (1100 sq ft) veg garden in the rose garden. I guess we can both be happy.