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White House vegetable garden. Coordinates: 38°53′44.9″N 77°2′13.4″W. White House Vegetable Garden. Michelle Obama and chef Sam Kass plant the garden with the help of Bancroft Elementary School fifth graders in 2009. The White House has had multiple vegetable gardens since its completion in 1800. John and Abigail Adams, Eleanor ...
Victory garden. Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany [1][2] during World War I and World War II. In wartime, governments encouraged people to plant victory ...
Kitchen garden. Walled 17th-century kitchen garden at Ham House near London, with orangery in the distance. The traditional kitchen garden, vegetable garden, also known as a potager (from the French jardin potager) or in Scotland a kailyaird, [1] is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden – the ornamental plants and lawn areas.
A community garden is any piece of land gardened by a group of people. [3] The majority of gardens in community gardening programs are collections of individual garden plots, frequently between 3 m × 3 m (9.8 ft × 9.8 ft) and 6 m × 6 m (20 ft × 20 ft). This holds true whether they are sponsored by public agencies, city departments, large ...
Whether you want to expand your garden beds or refresh container plantings for autumn, many flowers don’t start to show off until the leaves begin to turn. Beginning in late summer, asters take ...
The 15-hectare site features large domes and a food garden, with edible produce incorporated into the landscaping design. [16] The Food Forest is a property in Adelaide, Australia, which grows 160 varieties of organic fruit, nuts, wheat, and vegetables on 15 hectares of land. The owners educate visitors on how ordinary families can grow their ...
Keukenhof is situated on the 15th-century hunting grounds of Slot Teylingen; it was the castle's kitchen garden (in Dutch: keukentuin), providing game, fruit and vegetables. The most noted inhabitant, and beneficiary of the garden was Countess Jacoba van Beieren (1401–1436). [8] In 1638, the estate was purchased by Adriaen Maertensz Block ...
The history and character of gardens in ancient Egypt, like all aspects of Egyptian life, depended upon the Nile, and the network of canals that drew water from it.Water was hoisted from the Nile in leather buckets and carried on the shoulders to the gardens, and later, beginning in about the 14th century B.C., lifted from wells by hoists with counterbalancing weights called shadouf in Arabic.