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Campaign to grow vegetable garden on White House lawn
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, August 4, 2008 8:16 AM | permalink

Several past U.S. presidents had vegetable gardens on the White House lawn. Eleanor Roosevelt started a victory garden 
on the White House lawn in 1943, which encouraged millions to do the same in their own front yards. When WWII ended, 
home gardeners were producing 40 percent of the United States' produce.

Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardens International (an organization that promotes kitchen gardening and 
home-cooking) hopes to convince the next US president to make a small vegetable garden on the 19 acres of grass 
surrounding the White House. His video about making a garden in the front yard of his own "white house" is entertaining 
and inspiring. This Lawn is Your Lawn  http://www.kitchengardeners.org/2008/07/this_lawn_is_your_lawn_video.html