Michelle Obama's White House vegetable garden: By the numbers

It's fall harvest time on the South Lawn. Just what has grown in the first lady's garden since she planted it last spring?

Michelle Obama and local D.C. fifth graders harvest the White House's vegetable garden including sweet potatoes weighing up to four pounds.
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Michelle Obama, students from a local elementary school, and numerous world-class chefs celebrated the fall harvest this week by plucking turnips, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and other homegrown goodies from the White House garden. Since it was planted in the spring of 2009, the garden has yielded thousands of pounds of produce that has gone to feed the Obama family, White House guests, and the needy at a local food shelter. The first lady has also used the project educate children about the benefits of fresh food. (Watch Michelle Obama work in the garden.) Here, a numerical look at the Obamas' backyard plot:

1,500

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