{"id":41288,"date":"2016-09-30T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41288"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:32:06","slug":"healthy-harvest-community-farms-getting-ready-for-the-growing-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/09\/healthy-harvest-community-farms-getting-ready-for-the-growing-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Harvest Community Farms Getting Ready For The Growing Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32757\" title=\"Healthy Harvest farms\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Healthy-Harvest-farms-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Healthy-Harvest-farms-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Healthy-Harvest-farms.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As fall gets underway, Healthy Harvest Community Farms is gearing up for a new growing season in Dunbar and Lehigh Acres farms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Season&#8217;s just starting. A lot of this stuff is early growth,&#8221; said CEO and founder Joe Pearson, pointing at a variety of fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest things that we have to hear from is the heat,&#8221; said Pearson. &#8220;We understand that, but once you&#8217;re out here and you do it and you&#8217;re done, you feel very proud about what you&#8217;ve said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The non-profit organization distributes 75 percent of the fresh produce to surrounding communities, helping those in need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We donate it to local\u00a0food banks, food distribution centers and soup kitchens,&#8221; explained Pearson.<\/p>\n<p>The rest is available at the farm on a donation basis, providing relief to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fall gets underway, Healthy Harvest Community Farms is gearing up for a new growing season in Dunbar and Lehigh Acres farms. &#8220;Season&#8217;s just starting. A lot of this stuff&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}