Photos: White House Spring Garden Tour

The White House recently opened their grounds to the public for the annual Spring Garden Tour. Visitors were treated to the oldest continually maintained landscape in the United States. But with all that history there were also some new additions, notably the 1,100 square foot Kitchen Vegetable Garden, which was launched by First Lady Michelle Obama to promote healthy, homegrown and organic eating.

Personally I enjoyed seeing the first ever White House Beehive, where homemade honey is made for the kitchen.  The beehive also brings attention to the importance of pollination in the food process and how climate change is causing honeybees to disappear and thus leading to less pollination. This could have disastrous consequences for the human food supply chain because bees pollinate our flowering crops.

Here are photos of the Kitchen Garden and Beehive: