{"id":10272,"date":"2017-11-02T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2017-11-15T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:24:44","slug":"squashing-food-insecurity-make-difference-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2017\/11\/02\/squashing-food-insecurity-make-difference-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Squashing Food Insecurity! Make A Difference Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, October 27th, volunteers gathered ~860 pounds of raw squash. Those helping gathered together to cut, puree, and cook all the squash that was then donated to the Human Service Resource Center here at Oregon State. Among the volunteers were members of The\u00a0Organic\u00a0Growers\u00a0Club, Food for Sustainability\u00a0course students, and the Student Sustainability Initiative. The project was a part of the Center for Civic Engagement\u2019s Make a Difference Day.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were really excited to do this because we had the ability to provide families with food that will keep them warm, nourished, and comfortable in the cold winter months to come,\u201d said Shiana Ramos, the Growing Food Security coordinator for the Student Sustainability Initiative. All the squash that was prepared will be given out at the\u00a0food pantry nights at the Human Services Resource Center.<\/p>\n

Interested in making a difference yourself? Information on attending future food pantry events can be found by contacting\u00a0hsrc.foodpantry@oregonstate.edu<\/a>\u00a0or visiting\u00a0http:\/\/studentlife.oregonstate.edu\/hsrc\/hsrc-food-pantry\/food-pantry-hours-new<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, October 27th, volunteers gathered ~860 pounds of raw squash. Those helping gathered together to cut, puree, and cook all the squash that was then donated to the Human Service Resource Center here at Oregon State. Among the volunteers were members of The\u00a0Organic\u00a0Growers\u00a0Club, Food for Sustainability\u00a0course students, and the Student Sustainability Initiative. The project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[607472,1292100,1292109],"tags":[747,154999,1317,196555,37110],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-outreach","category-food","category-student-sustainability-initiative","tag-event","tag-hsrc","tag-make-a-difference-day","tag-ssi","tag-student-sustainability-initiative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions\/10279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}