{"id":17630,"date":"2012-02-06T09:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17630"},"modified":"2012-02-06T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:50:17","slug":"community-gardens-initiative-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/community-gardens-initiative-launched","title":{"rendered":"Community Gardens Initiative Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17634\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17634 \" title=\"agriculture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/agriculture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/agriculture.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/agriculture-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/agriculture-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social volunteers have joined in the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources\u2019 community gardening project. Pictured from left are assistant director Charmaine Brice, Minister of Agriculture Lawrence S \u2018Larry\u2019 Cartwright,  first assistant secretary Telford Mullings, and director of cooperatives Nathaniel Adderley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Providence\u2019s Urban Renewal Centres, primary schools and youth clubs have joined in the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources\u2019 community gardening initiative.<\/p>\n<p>They will identify and provide growing spaces and staff for the supervision of projects where necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry will provide technical assistance, tools, soils, seeds and fertilisers.<\/p>\n<p>St George\u2019s Anglican Church on Montrose Avenue and Claridge Farms on Cowpen Road will provide land space.<\/p>\n<p>The community gardening initiative complements the backyard garden and schools gardens programmes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince their beginning they have been most successful in promoting well being, generating an interest in food production, and developing skills and knowledge in growing food,\u201d said Minister Lawrence S \u2018Larry\u2019 Cartwright.<\/p>\n<p>As the Bahamas imports an average of $500 million worth of food annually, said Mr Cartwright, \u201cit is anticipated that these combined initiatives will also serve to reduce the level of imports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The community gardening initiative seeks to:<br \/>\nempower persons to supplement their food supplies;<br \/>\nencourage self reliance;<br \/>\nstimulate social cohesion;<br \/>\npromote and develop gardening skills;<br \/>\nbeautify and enhance the natural environment of neighborhoods;<br \/>\nreduce importation of certain foods; and,<br \/>\nprovide physical activities for persons.<\/p>\n<p>Realising that the success of community gardening require the involvement of the volunteer sector, said Mr Cartwright, representatives of schools and civic organisations have been invited to formulate a programme toward that end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trust that this initiative will play a positive role in promoting a sense of belonging, personal worth, and community togetherness,\u201d said Mr Cartwright.<\/p>\n<p>By Gladstone Thurston<br \/>\nBahamas Information Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Providence\u2019s Urban Renewal Centres, primary schools and youth clubs have joined in the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources\u2019 community gardening initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[80,133,21,23,51],"class_list":["post-17630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-agriculture","tag-community","tag-educational","tag-food","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}