Dishing Dirt on The White House Gardens

Which president lied to his wife to prevent her from planting vegetables at the White House? Which first lady misappropriated funds from the gardener’s budget to pay for fine China? And which administration brought sheep onto the grounds in order to save on mowing expenses?

Join award-winning, international garden writer Jessica Damiano over Zoom, on an eye-opening and inspiring historical tour of the White House gardens, from the founding of our nation to the present day.     

Jessica Damiano’s weekly AP gardening column is distributed to 1,700 newspapers and 6,000 television and radio stations around the country and world. She is also a gardening coach, Cornell-trained master gardener, multiple-award-winning journalist and author of (also award-winning) The Weekly Dirt newsletter. Jessica has been featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, The GardenAmerica Radio Show and the GardenDC podcast, and quoted in The Wall St. Journal, Martha Stewart Living, The Spruce and more. She lives on the North Shore of Long Island with her daughter, dog and a whole bunch of perennials, vegetable plants and weeds.  

This program is  made possible with the support of The Friends of the Livingston Public Library.