{"id":127,"date":"2011-09-22T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/2011\/09\/22\/kathleens-questions\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:04:56","slug":"kathleens-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/2011\/09\/22\/kathleens-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen&#8217;s Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just checking in now, so I&#8217;m sorry to be quite late to posting this information.  As a new graduate student I&#8217;m in a slightly different place than many people in our group.  I&#8217;ll do my best to answer Kathleen&#8217;s questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motivation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like many in our group who have posted so far, I came to issues of food from a mix of personal and professional motivations.  When I first moved to New York City and was living in the Bronx, I had a hard time finding healthy affordable food.  As a vegetarian, my options were even more limited.  A friend of mine invited me to be part of her mixed-income Community Supported Agriculture group since my income at the time qualified me for a subsidized share.  Through my involvement in the CSA, I began to think more about food access and justice issues in general.  I also became more educated about our current food system and this awareness provided a new frame for understanding my own family&#8217;s relationship to agriculture and food.  My subsequent work in the Parks Department connected me to a number of community activists, many who were eager to use their parks as places where food issues could be addressed.  Food distribution was a central feature in many community events designed to bring neighbors together to reclaim public space and counteract negative activities like drug abuse and crime.   Furthermore, I had a number of municipal colleagues equally passionate about these issues who were happy to find ways for community activists to creatively use the parks to improve their quality of life.  As a student of Landscape Architecture, I look forward to exploring this issue further through public scholarship around community gardens and parks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expectations, engagement, and implications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for my own experience as a student, I am looking forward to classes that involve hands-on partnership with Syracuse community groups.  Currently my studies are focused on skill-building around basic drafting and design. Outside of classes, I&#8217;ve been looking into volunteer opportunities.  I recently spent a Saturday preparing a space for a public snacking garden organized by a local Syracuse Permaculture group.   <\/p>\n<p>It looks like our group members are involved in some great projects.  <\/p>\n<p>See you later today,<br \/>\nCatherine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I&#8217;m just checking in now, so I&#8217;m sorry to be quite late to posting this information. As a new graduate student I&#8217;m in a slightly different place than many people in our group. I&#8217;ll do my best to answer Kathleen&#8217;s questions. Motivation Like many in our group who have posted so far, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}