{"id":20729,"date":"2020-10-26T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000015962"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:23:34","slug":"community-garden-for-youth-finds-new-home-in-willmore-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/community-garden-for-youth-finds-new-home-in-willmore-neighborhood","title":{"rendered":"Community garden for youth finds new home in Willmore neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adventures to Dreams, a community garden for kids\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GjyTWrnTCw0?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>From planting flowers to chopping potatoes, the nonprofit community garden, Adventures to Dreams is trying to enrich the lives of kids ages 4 to 14 through educational activities in the Willmore neighborhood in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Originally located in West Long Beach, Sheila Grantham, founder and director of the garden, saw an opportunity to move locations to the Drake\/Chavez Greenbelt by the soccer fields, not too far away.<\/p>\n<p>While the gardening program is her &#8220;baby,&#8221; Grantham and a team of volunteers also host activities and lessons including molding ceramics, cooking, STEM learning and more.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, programming days have been reduced to about two Saturdays a month, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventurestodreams.org\/#section-56\">Adventures to Dreams calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parents interested in enrolling their children in the program can email Grantham at <a href=\"mailto:sheilag@adventurestodreams.org\">sheilag@adventurestodreams.org,<\/a> call 562-233-6223 or message at the social media platforms mentioned on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventurestodreams.org\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From planting flowers to chopping potatoes, the nonprofit community garden Adventures to Dreams is trying to enrich the lives of kids ages 4 to 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":71318,"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":[630,506,1154],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[25587],"class_list":["post-20729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-community-gardening","tag-nonprofits","tag-youth","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}