{"id":8607,"date":"2016-10-06T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2016-10-06T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:36:52","slug":"starting-a-school-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/starting-a-school-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a school garden&#8211;don&#8217;t forget the rain gauge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becky Griffin from UGA&#8217;s Center for Urban Ag has a new publication out on starting a school garden. \u00a0You can find it at <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/publications\/detail.cfm?number=C1101\">https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/publications\/detail.cfm?number=C1101<\/a>. \u00a0It has some great ideas for organizing it!<\/p>\n<p>I would add that adding a rain gauge or weather instruments to the garden is a great way to teach the kids about how weather affects the garden crops. \u00a0CoCoRaHS has some great resources for doing this along with some 4-H lesson plans for teaching about the weather at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cocorahs.org\/Content.aspx?page=education\">https:\/\/www.cocorahs.org\/Content.aspx?page=education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/CoCoRaHS-logo2-half.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2228\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/CoCoRaHS-logo2-half.jpg\" alt=\"CoCoRaHS logo2 half\" width=\"209\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/CoCoRaHS-logo2-half.jpg 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/CoCoRaHS-logo2-half-108x138.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becky Griffin from UGA&#8217;s Center for Urban Ag has a new publication out on starting a school garden. \u00a0You can find it at https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/publications\/detail.cfm?number=C1101. \u00a0It has some great ideas for organizing it! I would add that adding a rain gauge or weather instruments to the garden is a great way to teach the kids about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-extension-agent-outreach","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}