Name: American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
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Author: Obama, Michelle
ISBN: 9780307956026

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Michelle Obama

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm

Weight

1.04 kg.

ISBN

9780307956026

ISBN13

9780307956026

Edition No.

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

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The former First Lady, author of Becoming, and producer and star of Waffles + Mochi tells the inspirational story of the White House Kitchen Garden and how gardens can transform our lives and the health of our communities. Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House's South Lawn. To her delight, she watched as fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground. Soon the White House Kitchen Garden inspired a new conversation all across the country about the food we feed our families and the impact it has on the nutrition and well-being of our children. In American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden, from the first planting to the satisfaction of the seasonal harvest. She reveals her early worries and struggles--would the new plants even grow?--and her joy as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards and kale, sweet potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil. She shares the stories of other gardens that have moved and inspired her on her journey across the nation. And she offers what she learned about planting your own backyard, school, or community garden. American Grown features: - a behind-the-scenes look at every season of the garden's growth- unique recipes created by White House chefs- striking original photographs that bring the White House garden to life- a fascinating history of community gardens in the United States From a modern-day vegetable truck that brings fresh produce to underserved communities in Chicago, to Houston office workers who make the sidewalk bloom, to a New York City school that created a scented garden for the visually impaired, to a garden in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that devotes its entire harvest to those less fortunate, American Grown isn't just the story of a single garden. It's a celebration of the bounty of our nation and a reminder of what we can all grow together.

Michelle Obama

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Michelle Robinson Obama was First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and began her career as a lawyer at the Sidley & Austin firm in Chicago, where she met Barack Obama, her future husband. Later, she worked at the city hall and at the University of Chicago and its medical center. Also in that city, she founded the branch of Public Allies, an organization that prepares young people to work in the public service sector.

Currently, the Obamas live in Washington D.C. and have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

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