{"id":235,"date":"2010-06-24T09:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-06-24T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T08:26:34","slug":"the-organic-garden-educators-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2010\/06\/24\/the-organic-garden-educators-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Organic Garden Educator's Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial;line-height: normal;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 19px\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: #1700b5;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"line-height: normal\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial;line-height: normal;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"color: #030303\">You are an organic garden educator working with teachers and young people in schools and communities in order to <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"color: #030303\">help them to ...<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial;line-height: normal;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"color: #030303\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #030303\">[i]\u00a0develop a positive attitude towards getting involved in gardening including food growing; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #030303\">[ii] acquire gardening skills that are of practical use, and <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #030303\">[ii] understand the imperative and benefits of doing all this organically.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #030303\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #030303\">So how do you react when, at the end of a programme, someone says: <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #030303\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #030303\">\"That was great. \u00a0I have learned so much; it was such a brilliant course \u2013 and great teaching. I've already started on my own garden plot at home with my family and we will be growing vegetables next season. \u00a0We're also looking for a local allotment. \u00a0I love it: fresh air, good food and a sense of achievement. \u00a0There's just one thing, I'm not really persuaded about this organic business.\" <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #030303\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are an organic garden educator working with teachers and young people in schools and communities in order to help them to ... [i]\u00a0develop a positive attitude towards getting involved in gardening including food growing; [ii] acquire gardening skills that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}