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

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    In April 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House's South Lawn.  As fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground, this 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 health and well-being of our children.

    Now, in her first-ever book, American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden and shares its inspiring story, from the first planting to the latest harvest.  Hear about her worries as a novice gardener - would the new plants even grow? Learn about her struggles and her joys as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards and kale, sweet potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil.  Get an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at every season of the garden's growth, with striking original photographs that bring its story to life.  Try the unique recipes created by White House chefs and made with ingredients just picked from the White House garden.  And learn from the White House Garden team about how you can help plant your own backyard, school or community garden.

    Mrs. Obama's journey continues across the nation as she shares the stories of other gardens that have moved and inspired her: Houston office workers who make the sidewalk bloom; a New York City School that created a scented garden for the visually impaired; a North Carolina garden that devotes its entire harvest to those in need; and other stories of communities that are transforming the lives and health of their citizens.

    In American Grown, Mrs. Obama tells the story of the White House Kitchen Garden, celebrates the bounty of gardens across our nation, and reminds us all of what we can grow together.   

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 29, 2012
    ISBN9780449808573
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    Reviews for American Grown

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    • 1/5
      Lacks information & makes few salient points. Threw book in trash.
    • 5/5
      What an amazing book
      I love the description of the White House garden journey
      The different essays are both informative and interesting
      Mrs Obama has a beautifully soothing voice, making for a perfect reader
    • 2/5
      Not very informative. Need way more resources to actually be successful.
    • 1/5
      It sucked a lot. Don't waste your time because you'll never get that time back. The positive reviews are based on Obama worship, not a honest review of the book.