{"id":4317,"date":"2014-09-17T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:19:55","slug":"volunteer-as-a-farm-friend-with-the-ubc-faculty-of-educations-intergenerational-landed-learning-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2014\/09\/17\/volunteer-as-a-farm-friend-with-the-ubc-faculty-of-educations-intergenerational-landed-learning-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer as a &#8220;Farm Friend&#8221; with the UBC Faculty of Education&#8217;s\u00a0Intergenerational Landed Learning Project! \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Farm Friend volunteers work in intergenerational groups of one elder, one younger volunteer, and 3-5 children to learn with and from nature and to cultivate habits of earth stewardship. \u00a0Throughout the school year the groups meet regularly to plan and plant gardens, tend to organic crops, harvest and cook fresh produce, and enjoy healthy foods in community at the UBC Farm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Farm Friends commit 12 mornings during the school year (Wednesday or Thursday,\u00a0\u00a08:30am-1pm,\u00a0approximately every other week, Sept-Oct 2014 &amp; Feb-June 2015). \u00a0&#8220;Floater&#8221; volunteers are also sought for flexible volunteering.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><b>Want to find out more?\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out our\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666666;\" href=\"http:\/\/m2.edcp.educ.ubc.ca\/landedlearning\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=27&amp;Itemid=73\">website FAQs page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Come to an info session at the UBC Farm*:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday, September 17, 9:30-11am<br \/>\nThursday, September 18, 9:30-11am<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*All info sessions will be held in the\u00a0<b>Children&#8217;s Learning Garden at the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666666;\" href=\"http:\/\/ubcfarm.ubc.ca\/contact-us\/\">UBC Farm<\/a><\/b>. \u00a0If you miss the info sessions, but are still interested, please contact us to find an alternate meeting time.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>RSVP or Questions:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666666;\" href=\"mailto:landed.learning@ubc.ca\">landed.learning@ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0or 604-822-4842<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm Friend volunteers work in intergenerational groups of one elder, one younger volunteer, and 3-5 children to learn with and from nature and to cultivate habits of earth stewardship. \u00a0Throughout the school year the groups meet regularly to plan and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2014\/09\/17\/volunteer-as-a-farm-friend-with-the-ubc-faculty-of-educations-intergenerational-landed-learning-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1726632],"tags":[473,233,293560,986393,890129,583155,2315,4213],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities-get-involved","tag-children","tag-education","tag-elder","tag-farm-friend","tag-intergenerational","tag-stewardship","tag-ubc-farm","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}