{"id":1452,"date":"2009-03-23T00:03:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T04:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2013-01-10T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:34:58","slug":"white-house-breaks-ground-on-organic-kitchen-garden-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2009\/03\/white-house-breaks-ground-on-organic-kitchen-garden-project\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Breaks Ground On Organic Kitchen Garden Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, March 23, 2009) With the beginning of Spring, students from Washington, D.C.\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpha60.com\/bancroft\/\">Bancroft Elementary School<\/a> have joined First Lady Michelle Obama on the White House&#8217;s South Lawn to start an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2009\/03\/20\/us\/20garden_grphic.html\">1,100-square foot kitchen garden<\/a> that will provide food for family meals, formal dinners and local D.C. soup kitchens. Over the coming months, the students, whose school has had a garden since 2001, along with the Obama family and the White House grounds crew, will help with the organic garden from planting to harvesting. Many hope that this move is more than symbolic, that it will transcend to better agricultural and pesticide-reform policies, invigorate homeowners to convert some of their own lawns to an organic garden, and educate the consumers on the importance of eating healthy locally-grown organic food. <\/p>\n<p>The garden will contain 55 different vegetables, as well as berries, herbs and two beehives. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/19\/dining\/19garden-web.html?_r=1&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=white%20house%20garden&#038;st=cse\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, the White House has spent $200 for organic seeds, mulch and dirt for the raised garden plot beds that will be \u201cfertilized with White House compost, crab meal from the Chesapeake Bay, lime and green sand. Ladybugs and praying mantises will help control harmful bugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled for the Obama family and for all who will be inspired by their example to grow gardens of their own this year,\u201d said Roger Doiron, founder of the nonprofit Kitchen Gardeners International who ran the campaign, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eattheview.org\/\">Eat the View<\/a>, which coordinated a 100,000 signature-petition asking the Obamas to replant a Victory Garden at the White House.  <\/p>\n<p>While the Obamas\u2019 garden might be new, the idea of an edible landscape at the White House is not. Throughout its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eattheview.org\/page\/history-1\">history<\/a>, the White House has been home to food gardens of different shapes and sizes and even to a lawn-mowing herd of sheep in 1918. The appeal of the White House garden project, Mr. Doiron asserts, is that it serves as a bridge between the country\u2019s past and its future. \u201cThe last time food was grown on the White House lawn was in 1943, when the country was at war, the economy was struggling and people were looking to the First Family for leadership. It made sense before and it makes sense again as we try to live within our own means and those of the planet.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the past month, the Eat the View campaign has touted the economic benefits of home gardens as part of its pitch to White House staff members. As proof, Mr. Doiron and his wife spent nine months weighing and recording each vegetable they pulled from their 1,600-square-foot garden outside Portland, Maine. After counting the final winter leaves of salad, they found that they had saved about $2,150 by growing produce for their family of five instead of buying it. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dioron isn\u2019t the only one that has been spearheading the push for a White House organic garden. Alice Waters, chef of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, has been advocating for such a garden since the 1990\u2019s and continues to campaign for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chezpanissefoundation.org\/work.html\">Edible Schoolyard and School Lunch Initiative<\/a>. Daniel Bowman Simon and Casey Gustowarow started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhofarm.org\">The White House Organic Farm Project<\/a>, also a petition-based initiative that uses two school buses fused together with an organic edible garden on the roof to travel around the country in an effort to educate others. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/organicfood\/index.htm\">Organic agriculture<\/a> embodies an ecological approach to farming that does not rely on or permit toxic, synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, antibiotics, sewage sludge, or irradiation. Instead of using these harmful products and practices, organic agriculture utilizes techniques such as cover cropping, crop rotation, and composting to produce healthy soil, prevent pest and disease problems, and grow healthy food and fiber.<\/p>\n<p>Former White House executive chef Walter Scheib told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/19\/AR2009031902886.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, &#8220;This garden is a tremendous idea, one that is both timely and in some ways overdue. There has always been a small garden at the White House, but this commitment by Mrs. Obama to local and freshly grown produce is a progressive move forward that will raise the profile and awareness of local and sustainable food both at the White House and nationally to an unprecedented level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Groups around the country are happy to see the new, organic direction the White House is taking, but hopes that President Obama takes it further. Kitchen Gardeners International plans to expand the Eat the View campaign to other high-profile pieces of land, such as sprawling lawns around governors\u2019 residences, schoolyards, and vacant urban lots.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Pesticides would like to see all federal lands managed organically and federal buildings using defined Integrated Pest Management. Beyond Pesticides supports organic agriculture as effecting good land stewardship and a reduction in hazardous chemical exposures for workers on the farm. The pesticide reform movement, citing pesticide problems associated with chemical agriculture, from groundwater contamination and runoff to drift, views organic as the solution to a serious public health and environmental threat. <\/p>\n<p>Learn more about organics on Beyond Pesticides\u2019 Organic Food <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/organicfood\/index.htm\">program page<\/a> and at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/forum\/index.htm\">Bridge to an Organic Future<\/a> conference, April 3-4 in Carrboro (Chapel Hill area), NC. <\/p>\n<p>Encourage the Obama Administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/transformingpesticidepolicy\/#A\">promote organic agriculture<\/a>, which slows global climate change and support rural economic development. Read the recommendations sent to Mr. Obama\u2019s transition team by grassroots organizations. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/CONTACT\/\">Contact<\/a> the Obama administration.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, March 23, 2009) With the beginning of Spring, students from Washington, D.C.\u2019s Bancroft Elementary School have joined First Lady Michelle Obama on the White House&#8217;s South Lawn to start an 1,100-square foot kitchen garden that will provide food for family meals, formal dinners and local D.C. soup kitchens. Over the coming months, the students, whose school has had a garden since 2001, along with the Obama family and the White House grounds crew, will help with the organic garden from planting to harvesting. 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The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides (originally as National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) as a nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly. We believe decisions should not be made for us by chemical companies or by decision-makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them. Learn more about our work, read A Year in Review\u20142021, our accomplishments are your victories! Beyond Pesticides seeks to protect healthy air, water, land, and food for ourselves and future generations. By forging ties with governments, nonprofits, and people who rely on these natural resources, we reduce the need for unnecessary pesticide use and protect public health and the environment. Beyond Pesticides provides hands-on services to the public and supports local action by: identifying and interpreting hazards; and, designing safe pest management programs. With the information provided by Beyond Pesticides, people may not only be able to make informed choices and adopt practices that protect themselves and their families from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, but they will be able to effect changes on community-wide pest management decisions and policies that govern pesticide use, such as pesticide uses in parks, schools, for community insect control and along roadsides. 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