{"id":14878,"date":"2020-04-11T14:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000009553"},"modified":"2020-04-13T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:11:58","slug":"video-with-kids-unable-to-harvest-class-gardens-ground-education-lends-a-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/video-with-kids-unable-to-harvest-class-gardens-ground-education-lends-a-hands","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: With kids unable to harvest class gardens, Ground Education lends a hand(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"School gardens still need to be harvested\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTn4HFqfpBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Long Beach Unified School District students have continued many of their studies online, one class that just can&#8217;t be virtually replicated is the garden learning program run by locally-based Ground Education.<\/p>\n<p>The non-profit, now in its 10th year, works with kids from kindergarten to 8th grade to show them not only the science of growing but to make the connection between healthy food, a vibrant community and environmental responsibility. And this is all done very much hands-on, which meant that when students were sent home several weeks ago there was going to be far fewer hands harvesting all their hard work.<\/p>\n<p>The task has fallen to Ground Education co-founders Holland Brown and Karen Taylor and a shifting cast of volunteers who have been spending their days\u2014rain or shine, as you&#8217;ll see\u2014not only harvesting the students&#8217; handiwork at multiple schools but cleaning, packaging and distributing it back to the students through LBUSD&#8217;s ongoing lunch program.<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with the pair as they spent another day in the field, this a soggy one at Luther Burbank Elementary; fitting given Burbank&#8217;s standing as a world famous botanist and horticulturalist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants.<\/p>\n<p>Brown says it&#8217;s disappointing that social distancing means she and Taylor can&#8217;t be there when their students receive their produce, but hopes &#8220;they feel our love&#8221; when they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit works to show kids not only the science of growing but understand connections between healthy food, a vibrant community and environmental responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[434],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[12784],"class_list":["post-14878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-lbusd","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14878"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=14878"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}