{"id":1003,"date":"2011-04-28T05:37:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T05:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2014-09-27T17:59:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:59:48","slug":"inver-grove-heights-middle-school-students-become-natural-chefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Inver Grove Heights Middle School Students Become Natural Chefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from invergroveheights.patch.com<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of 13 Inver Grove Heights Middle School students gathered after school in a classroom at Simley High School Wednesday afternoon, filling the air with \u2013 of all things \u2013 the pleasantly appetizing smell of cilantro and other fresh vegetables they had just cut.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t the only thing they appreciated about their work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1020\" title=\"Woman with Basket of Food\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/girl-w-veggies-MP900430659-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/girl-w-veggies-MP900430659-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/girl-w-veggies-MP900430659-1024x926.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/girl-w-veggies-MP900430659.jpg 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the sounds they make,\u201d said seventh grader Sam Church, referring to the fresh basil leaves she was tearing to prepare homemade pesto sauce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know \u2014 it\u2019s crunchy,\u201d agreed seventh-grader Gabby Patterson, who assisted Church.<\/p>\n<p>The students were participating in the first day of Laura Greene\u2019s \u201cBecoming a Natural Chef\u201d course \u2014 a modified version of a course she teaches as part her Chaska, Minn.-based \u201cGrow. Eat. Share.\u201d program. \u201cGrow. Eat. Share\u201d teaches kids to garden, cook with what they grow and donate the rest of their produce to a food<\/p>\n<p>Read the<a href=\"http:\/\/invergroveheights.patch.com\/articles\/middle-school-students-become-natural-chefs\"> full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from invergroveheights.patch.com A group of 13 Inver Grove Heights Middle School students gathered after school in a classroom at Simley High School Wednesday afternoon, filling the air with \u2013 of all things \u2013 the pleasantly appetizing smell of cilantro and other fresh vegetables they had just cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[40,42,131,142],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ftc-censorship","category-vitamins-and-drugs","tag-natural-foods","tag-natural-remedies","tag-obesity","tag-prediabetic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}