{"id":47808,"date":"2017-06-09T07:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T11:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=47808"},"modified":"2017-06-09T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T12:02:07","slug":"msr-garden-ready-for-summer-harvest-and-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/06\/09\/msr-garden-ready-for-summer-harvest-and-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"MSR Garden Ready for Summer Harvest (and Volunteers!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signage and apparel throughout campus may be adorned in \u201cBU Red,\u201d but the Medical Student Residence garden is blossoming with green(s).<\/p>\n<p>With help from Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Doug Hughes, MD, students enjoyed a preview of the summer sun on Thursday, June 1. They planted an assortment of greens and vegetables, including beefsteak and cherry tomatoes, red and green bell peppers, cilantro, basil, cucumbers and eggplant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4985a-e1496948177616-636x418.jpg\" alt=\"COM_garden event\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47809 size-medium\" width=\"636\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4985a-e1496948177616-636x418.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4985a-e1496948177616-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4985a-e1496948177616-1024x673.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Will Mckeen, a postgraduate student and member of the Student Nutrition Awareness and Action Council (SNAAC), has taken the garden on as his primary project. \u201cI grew up in a semi-rural area in Southern Oregon with no shortage of farms and orchards, so I had been wondering how feasible it would be to grow my own garden in a large city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:none;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4925a-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"COM-mckeen gardening\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4925a-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4925a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4925a-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4955a-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"COM-gardening\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4955a-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4955a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/06\/MED_4955a-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The goal of the garden is to enable students to cook and eat what is grown. Students are encouraged to visit and help harvest throughout the summer. If the plants\/vegetables are not used, Mckeen will donate them to a local food bank. Plans for more vegetable variety and more gardening events are in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Mckeen and SNAAC are looking for student volunteers to help water the plants on a regular basis. If you are interested, email <a href=\"mailto:wsmckeen@bu.edu\">Will<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about the MSR garden and see how you can help harvest it throughout the summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,123,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47808"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47836,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47808\/revisions\/47836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}