What's this all about?
Eat the View is a campaign to plant high-impact food gardens in high-profile places. We asked the Obamas to lead the way by replanting a kitchen garden on the First Lawn and they heard our call!
Eat the View is coordinated by Kitchen Gardeners International, a Maine-based 501c3 nonprofit network of 10,000 gardeners from 100 countries who are inspiring and teaching more people to grow some of their own food.
Since its launch in February 2008, Eat the View! has been featured in over 500 newspapers including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post.
Our videos The Garden of Eatin' and "This Lawn is Your Lawn" video have been viewed thousands of times on the internet. The latter was chosen as one of the winners of the "Climate Matters" video contest and shown on national TV to an estimated audience of 50 million households.
Eat the View also won the Grand Prize in the OnDayOne.org contest where citizens are helping to set a positive, global agenda for President Obama.
Eat the View is first and foremost a people-powered campaign. Over 100,000 people signed our White House Victory Garden petition on our site or on Facebook.
Please direct all inquiries to Roger
Doiron, (207) 883-5341
Eat the View is coordinated by Kitchen Gardeners International, a Maine-based 501c3 nonprofit network of 10,000 gardeners from 100 countries who are inspiring and teaching more people to grow some of their own food.
Since its launch in February 2008, Eat the View! has been featured in over 500 newspapers including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post.
Our videos The Garden of Eatin' and "This Lawn is Your Lawn" video have been viewed thousands of times on the internet. The latter was chosen as one of the winners of the "Climate Matters" video contest and shown on national TV to an estimated audience of 50 million households.
Eat the View also won the Grand Prize in the OnDayOne.org contest where citizens are helping to set a positive, global agenda for President Obama.
Eat the View is first and foremost a people-powered campaign. Over 100,000 people signed our White House Victory Garden petition on our site or on Facebook.
Please direct all inquiries to Roger
Doiron, (207) 883-5341
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It's Official: the Obamas are "Eating the View"
Edible landscapes for all: can you dig it? Yes, you can!
To make this happen, though, we need more people asking for and digging these landscapes. Please join our campaign. Here are a few things you can do to help:
1) Identify a landscape near you that you think should be "edible-ized". Chances
are that you won't have to look far. Start with your own yard, neighborhood, or
child's schoolyard. Then, why not ask your elected officials at the state and
local level to lead by example. The Governors of Maine, North Carolina and New
York are already eating from gardens planted at their official residences.
2)Thank the Obamas for leading by example
3) Join this campaign and website. Use this site to share your stories of edible landscapes you're creating, planning, or already eating.
4) Join our Facebook Cause
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Let's grow this campaign!
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What bright and creative ideas do you have for building and broadening the campaign to make the White House lawn into an edible landscape?
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