{"id":1266,"date":"2016-12-09T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2016-12-09T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:45:19","slug":"are-you-ready-to-start-your-new-free-school-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/2016\/12\/09\/are-you-ready-to-start-your-new-free-school-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready to Start your New (FREE) School Garden?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/school-gardens-header.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1268 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/school-gardens-header.jpg\" alt=\"school-gardens-header\" width=\"1005\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/school-gardens-header.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/school-gardens-header-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/school-gardens-header-768x255.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/school-gardens-header-1024x340.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/school-gardens-header-1080x359.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Family Nutrition Program teaches nutrition education to low income families (youth, adults, and seniors). \u00a0As part of our nutrition education program, we offer up to $500 for a new garden (container gardening, raised bed, hydroponic, etc.) at any school receiving nutrition lessons from us, and then $300 yearly towards maintenance for each year we continue teaching at the school. We\u00a0work with\u00a0Title I schools in grades K through 5, as well as shelters, community centers, food pantries, and other organizations to help participants make better food choices. \u00a0The Family Nutrition Program is through Pasco County Extension, which is the partnership between University of Florida and Pasco County Government.<\/p>\n<p>The school gardens are most successful when\u00a0there is a supportive &#8220;garden champion&#8221;\u00a0who can help\u00a0maintain it. \u00a0For many students, it is a learning experience as to where fresh food comes from and it encourages them to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption. \u00a0For schools interested in nutrition\u00a0lessons (whether it\u2019s for youth or for parents) and gardens, and to learn more about our program,\u00a0please call the program manager,\u00a0Shari Bresin, at 813-929-2725\u00a0or email Sbresin@ufl.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Nutrition Program teaches nutrition education to low income families (youth, adults, and seniors). \u00a0As part of our nutrition education program, we offer up to $500 for a new garden (container gardening, raised bed, hydroponic, etc.) at any school receiving nutrition lessons from us, and then $300 yearly towards maintenance for each year we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}