{"id":2016,"date":"2021-09-06T01:07:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T01:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2021-09-06T01:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T01:07:33","slug":"gardening-pro-tips-for-seniors-nutrition-program-a-clinic-on-growing-healthy-veggies-and-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Gardening pro-tips, for seniors: Nutrition program a clinic on growing healthy veggies and herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Master gardener Marie Woodard used a fabric tape measure to gauge the spacing \u2014 about 24 inches \u2014 needed between cabbage buds in a raised bed.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby, master gardener Kanisha Haskins dug her hands into the fresh dirt and shared the benefits of planting scallions, which though already ripe for use, can be reseeded to produce more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bulb goes into the ground, so the bulb gets a little bigger,\u201d Haskins-Combs said. \u201cInstead, it would be just a small spring onion it would be maybe the size of a pearl onion, or a small white onion. It\u2019s an onion, so it keeps coming back. It saves you money in the grocery store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These pro-tips are some of what both gardeners shared with a group of seniors who participated in a fall community garden activity at the Langley Village Apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Continue the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/wellness\/gardening-pro-tips-for-seniors-nutrition-program-a-clinic-on-growing-healthy-veggies-and-herbs\/ar-AAO7JET\">The Daily Press<\/a> via MSN.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master gardener Marie Woodard used a fabric tape measure to gauge the spacing \u2014 about 24 inches \u2014 needed between&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}