{"id":166,"date":"2012-11-21T10:29:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-11-21T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T18:32:58","slug":"richmond-food-security-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/richmond-food-security-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Food Security Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Group 4 \u2013 Richmond Food Security Society \u2013 Mapping Low Income Areas with Community Meals and Kitchens<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m lucky enough to have convenient access to fresh, nutritious, and affordable food (a minute walk to my closest grocer!) but sadly many people have very poor food security, particularly among the low-income. Richmond is such a place where there is a wide range of food securities and incomes, and it was group 4\u2032s job to map out and measure the spacial gaps between food service outlets and low-income, food insecure households. Many phone calls were made by the team to collect service information from these specialized food establishments to draw out the map. The members did many site visits and helped out during the active hours. As a plus, many made new contacts with dietitians, a huge advantage for many LFS students! The general consensus by the members is that this project made a significant improvement on their time management skills and taught them the frustrations of getting contact from many, many sources.<\/p>\n<p>As the due date for this project is nearing, group 4 is finalizing their results and a conclusion for how food secure the low income households of Richmond are is coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Kat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group 4 \u2013 Richmond Food Security Society \u2013 Mapping Low Income Areas with Community Meals and Kitchens I\u2019m lucky enough to have convenient access to fresh, nutritious, and affordable food (a minute walk to my closest grocer!) but sadly many people have very poor food security, particularly among the low-income. Richmond is such a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richmond-food-security-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}