American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America Book

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 272 Publisher: the Crown Through telling the story of the White House Kitchen Garden First Lady Michelle Obama Explores how increased Access to healthful. affordable food can promote better eating habits and improve Health for families and communities across America. Mrs. Obama will describe how Sasha and Malia were the catalysts for change for their family's eating behavior which inspired her national initiative to address childhood obesity and resulted in the idea to plant a vegetable garden on the South Lawn. the first since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden. American Grown will be inspirational and instructive and will provide ideas for readers to get involved and join the movement to create community gardens. support local farmers markets. create school gardens. and start urban gardens. as well as other ways that they can make small cha...Read More