{"id":11094,"date":"2022-05-31T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=11094"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:38:08","slug":"in-the-news-stewart-fuoco-ufv-agriculture-student-association-president-assists-with-launch-of-community-garden-in-chilliwack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2022\/05\/31\/in-the-news-stewart-fuoco-ufv-agriculture-student-association-president-assists-with-launch-of-community-garden-in-chilliwack\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news &#8230; Stewart Fuoco, UFV Agriculture Student Association President assists with launch of community garden in Chilliwack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Chilliwack Bowls of Hope opens community garden with communal and private plots: <\/strong>Garden important for food sovereignty and for people to have access to grow own food, says Cindy Waters<\/h3>\n<p><em>Article written by <a class=\"byline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theprogress.com\/author\/jenna-hauck\/\" rel=\"author\">JENNA HAUCK<\/a>, Chilliwack Progress<br \/>\n<\/em><em>May. 27, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new community garden project in Chilliwack will help feed hungry families and give folks with no garden space at home a place to plant their own private garden.<\/p>\n<p>Chilliwack Bowls of Hope Society just launched its community garden program on Wolfe Road in partnership with the City of Chilliwack and the University of the Fraser Valley\u2019s Agriculture Student Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to teach people about what food is in season, what is realistic to grow, insects, pests, weeds and proper composting,\u201d said <strong>Stewart Fuoco<\/strong>, president of the UFV Agriculture Student Association. \u201cPretty much how to have a stronger local food system and teach people to be food citizens so people will have a better understanding of where our food comes from and how we can grow it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The community garden is on a five-acre parcel of city land but they are only using one acre of it this year, and are hoping to expand in the future. They made an agreement with the city where Bowls of Hope Society gets to use the land at no charge, but the society must maintain it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprogress.com\/news\/chilliwack-bowls-of-hope-opens-community-garden-with-communal-and-private-plots\/\">CONTINUE READING &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ufv.ca\/science\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5294\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-200x91.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo.png 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chilliwack Bowls of Hope opens community garden with communal and private plots: Garden important for food sovereignty and for people to have access to grow own food, says Cindy Waters Article written by JENNA HAUCK, Chilliwack Progress May. 27, 2022 A new community garden project in Chilliwack will help feed hungry families and give folks &#8230; <a title=\"In the news &#8230; Stewart Fuoco, UFV Agriculture Student Association President assists with launch of community garden in Chilliwack\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2022\/05\/31\/in-the-news-stewart-fuoco-ufv-agriculture-student-association-president-assists-with-launch-of-community-garden-in-chilliwack\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":11121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[444,7,1],"tags":[59,447],"class_list":["post-11094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-deans-office","category-uncategorized","tag-agriculture","tag-community-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094\/revisions\/11126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}