This Nonprofit Is One of Michelle Obama's D.C. Legacies

Sarah Holway awoke one morning to a surprise: The art teacher’s Washington, D.C. school had been selected to help first lady ­Michelle Obama break ground later that day on a vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

Holway was running Bancroft Elementary’s school garden, and she spent much of her time convincing coworkers how good such a program could be for the school. She made sure she was on that school bus to the White House on March 20, 2009, and she listened to the first lady tell the fifth-graders about the benefits of fresh and organic food—a concept then associated with elites and far from the mainstream.