Roger Doiron of [1] Kitchen Gardeners International, a Maine-based nonprofit involved in persuading the White House to plant a vegetable garden, created a graphic of what that garden would look like if planted according to farm subsidies. As Doiron writes, “In a nutshell, I was really inspired by the diversity and nutritiousness of the crops planted in the White House kitchen garden this spring and thought it would be eye-opening—not to mention jaw-dropping—to see what the White House garden would look like if it were planted to reflect the relative importance of the crops that our tax dollars are actually supporting.”

The graphic is based on information compiled from the [2] Environmental Working Group’s farm subsidy [3] database. Click on graphic to enlarge:

[4]