First Lady Michelle Obama plants a kitchen garden on the South Lawn of the White House, the first vegetable plot on the property since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden. Obama uses the garden to start conversations around healthy eating.


“The White House Kitchen Garden.” Let’s Move. Accessed August 4, 2021. https://letsmove.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/gardening-guide

First Lady Michelle Obama and American Indian children plant traditional crops in the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House, June 3, 2011. National Congress of American Indians. Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton.