{"id":388,"date":"2020-04-01T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/?p=388"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:38:14","slug":"connect-with-food-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/connect-with-food-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Connect with Food Gardening<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heather N. Kolich, ANR Agent, UGA Extension Forsyth County<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Springtime seems to wake up a planting gene in many of us. A summer food garden is a fun and satisfying family project. Growing food from seeds is inexpensive and helps kids understand where our food comes from. Home gardening can also provide a sense of security and self-sufficiency during the uncertainty of our current national health crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve been contemplating starting a garden to add fresh foods to your meals, mid-April marks our go-ahead and plant date. For a quick start-up guide, check out the newest on-demand webinar in Forsyth County Extension\u2019s Connect with Food Gardening series. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=niVBPvjAX-g&amp;t=71s\">Summer Fruits and Veggies to Grow from Seeds<\/a><\/strong> covers the basics to get you growing in about 11 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springtime seems to wake up a planting gene in many of us. A summer food garden is a fun and satisfying family project. Growing food from seeds is inexpensive and helps kids understand where our food comes from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[137,71],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anr","tag-food-gardening","tag-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forsyth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}