Harvest Season in the White House Garden

Harvest Season in the White House Garden
Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME

Groundbreaking
First Lady Michele Obama grabs a rake on the day the White House garden was inaugurated in March 2009. The 1,100-sq.-ft. plot is the first vegetable garden to be planted on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's World War II victory garden.

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