Campaign to grow vegetable garden on White House lawn...
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.
I doubt if there will be any luck with the idea... As one commenter put it "Jimmy Carter did all kinds of "lead by example" stuff when he was President, and we lambasted him for it. What makes anyone believe the next President wouldn't get the same treatment?"
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