In April 2009, First Female Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden over the White House’s South Lawn. As more fresh vegetables, fruits, and herbal remedies sprouted from the ground, this White House Kitchen Garden influenced a new conversation all across the country about the meals we feed our families as well as the effect it has on the health and well-being of our children.

Right now, in her first-ever reserve, American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the Light House Kitchen Backyard and shares about American Grown: THE STORYPLOT of the White House Kitchen Backyard and Landscapes Across America its inspiring story, from your first planting to the latest harvest. Hear about her worries as a newbie gardener – would the new plants even grow? Find out about her challenges and her joys as lettuce, corn, tomato vegetables, collards and kale, sugary potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the newly tilled soil. Obtain an unprecedented behind-the-scenes take a look at every time of year from the garden’s growth, with striking initial photographs that bring its story alive. Try the unique recipes produced by Light Home chefs and made out of ingredients just picked from your White House backyard. And study from the White colored House Garden team about how exactly you can help plant your very own backyard, school or community backyard.

Mrs. Obama’s trip continues over the nation as she stocks the stories of other gardens that have relocated and inspired her: Houston workers in offices who make the sidewalk bloom; a fresh York City School that developed a scented garden for the aesthetically impaired; a NEW YORK backyard that devotes its entire harvest to those in need; and other stories of areas that are transforming the lives and wellness of their citizens.

In American Grown, Mrs. Obama tells the storyplot of the White colored House Kitchen Backyard, celebrates the bounty of landscapes across our nation, and reminds people of what we can grow together.