{"id":881,"date":"2017-08-15T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=881"},"modified":"2017-08-16T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:17:35","slug":"blog-post-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/blog-post-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Course End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final week of the class has addressed the topic of many things that I would have considered to be, &#8220;hippie stuff.&#8221; Before moving to Washington State back in &#8217;09, I grew up in a poor white family living on government assistance, food was whatever came to the table, whatever the most that could be had with food stamps was. We couldn&#8217;t afford to be picky, but I did however grow up with my grandfather growing a garden in his back yard, we just to have fresh seasonal vegetables every time we went to his house. Still, the word organic was a foreign concept to me, growing up on the East Coast of Virginia. This lesson reminded me just how far I have come thanks to my education. I am now able to speak more eloquently and be aware of world issues, including the issues of food sovereignty, the world food system, and much more of the &#8220;hippie&#8221; food movements that have sprung up in the world. What my grandfather was doing was take his own food sovereignty somewhat into his hands by maintaining his own garden&#8230;.that and he had to feed the 8 kids of my dads generation. This class will allow me to put forth the knowledge that I have, and use it to help protect my children, and teach them as well, so they will not grow up eating as I did, but eat a more healthy, informed diet. Its been a tough course, on to the next! Cheers!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-882\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/synergy-farm-san-juan-islands-washington.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/synergy-farm-san-juan-islands-washington.jpg 640w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/synergy-farm-san-juan-islands-washington-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/synergy-farm-san-juan-islands-washington-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final week of the class has addressed the topic of many things that I would have considered to be, &#8220;hippie stuff.&#8221; Before moving to Washington State back in &#8217;09, I grew up in a poor white family living on government assistance, food was whatever came to the table, whatever the most that could be had with food stamps was&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/blog-post-8\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodmovements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}