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This animated video is part of the "Eat the View" campaign to plant high-impact gardens in high-profile places. What better place to start than at the White House?

The video tells the story of the "America's Garden" from 1800 when President John Adams planted the first "first vegetables" to feed his own family to the present day.

It ends by peeking optimistically into the future when President Obama, seeing how our world is changing, announces plans to replant America's garden, inspiring countless citizens to grow some of their own delicious, healthy, and environmentally responsible food.

Began in February 2008, the "Eat the View" campaign is powered by real people like you. Please join us here: eattheview.org

The video was produced by the nonprofit group Kitchen Gardeners International (KitchenGardeners.org) which is leading the "Eat the View" campaign. The animation is the creative genius of Eliot Morrison of yiggs.com.

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  • Kelly Lockamy 3 years ago
    Keep up the great work Roger! I'm encouraging our city of Savannah GA to support community gardening with an official, funded program. My gardening biz installs veg gardens and teaches people how to use them. I'll also be teaching food preservation when I get enough customers. I'll be passing on your videos to many people here in the deep south, Thanks!!
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  • Robert Ressl 3 years ago
    Besides a kitchen garden we can integrate edible plants into the landscape. This is the ultimate conservation measure since the energy spent growing decorative landscaping is shifted to growing food and the resulting savings are componded, not only do you use the energy to grow the decorative component but now you get to eat it and the carbon foot print of something eaten from the site is really small (no transportation cost and the cost for space, water, energy, fertilizer (don't need it), etc.).
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  • Riley Germann 2 years ago
    I always think that it's a novel idea to grow gardens. It's great when people enjoy gardening, but to think the world will end up better by gardening at the white house is foolish. I hope the president doesn't waste his time on such a now pointless errand. If we want to reduce carbon footprints let's do it in a way that will still allow the larger food companies to produce the food we enjoy. Make farming cheaper and more efficient. As long as people are starving around the world a garden at the white house seems frivolous...
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  • lhenz shimmer 6 months ago
    so great to watch this.. i will use this as my material for teaching about gardening... it could help them to inspire and realize how much is this important to us!
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