{"id":24878,"date":"2017-06-16T03:37:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T10:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=24878"},"modified":"2017-06-16T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:47:21","slug":"farming-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/06\/16\/farming-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban farming in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>This photo of Sole Food Street Farms in Downtown Vancouver was almost the cover of our Summer Celebration issue, but the more colourful Gastown scene won out. <em>(photo by Cynthia Ramsay)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JI-pg-01-jun-16-cover-summer-celeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24892\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JI-pg-01-jun-16-cover-summer-celeb.jpg\" alt=\"image - Jewish Independent Summer Celebration issue cover 2017\" width=\"240\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JI-pg-01-jun-16-cover-summer-celeb.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JI-pg-01-jun-16-cover-summer-celeb-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JI-pg-01-jun-16-cover-summer-celeb-118x150.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Co-founded by Seann Dory and Michael Ableman, Sole Food Street Farms transforms \u201cvacant and contaminated urban land into street farms that grow artisan-quality fruits and vegetables. By providing jobs, agricultural training and inclusion in a community of farmers and food lovers, the Sole Food project has empowered dozens of individuals with limited resources who are managing addiction and chronic mental health problems.\u201d For more information, visit solefoodfarms.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo of Sole Food Street Farms in Downtown Vancouver was almost the cover of our Summer Celebration issue, but the more colourful Gastown scene won out. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) Co-founded by Seann Dory and Michael Ableman, Sole Food Street Farms transforms \u201cvacant and contaminated urban land into street farms that grow artisan-quality fruits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7158,5948,6345],"class_list":["post-24878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-sole-food","tag-summer","tag-urban-farming"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}