{"id":9446,"date":"2024-05-01T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2024-05-01T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:55:39","slug":"backyard-gardening-on-the-move1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/backyard-gardening-on-the-move1\/","title":{"rendered":"BACKYARD GARDENING ON THE MOVE#1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Backyard Garden meetings Restarted\u00a0<\/strong>by Carol-Faye Bynoe-George<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">On Tuesday 30th\u00a0April, the first Backyard Garden meeting since the Covid Pandemic was held at the Agricultural Extension Division located in the Old PDO building.\u00a0It was customary for this forum to meet regularly before the Pandemic however this was disrupted for several reasons.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Miss\u00a0Efuru\u00a0Elihu and Mr. Ayo Simon,\u00a0backyard garden\u00a0facilitators felt that this meeting was a timely one especially since it also was a meet and greet event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The number of backyard gardeners has grown tremendously\u00a0during and post\u00a0the COVID\u00a0pandemic. \u00a0 The meeting was organized for the introduction of the new gardeners and\u00a0was\u00a0an opportunity for\u00a0the\u00a0established gardeners to mingle with their fellow colleagues.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cGoing forward meetings will be held every last Tuesday in the month, therefore, the next one will be held on 28th\u00a0May\u201d, explained Miss Elihu.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">A synopsis of the programme and the closing remarks were done by Mr. Ika Fergus, Agricultural Extension Officer. There were approximately forty (40) plus gardeners in attendance.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/70e25feb-4283-4733-980b-48fee4d4d46c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9447\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/70e25feb-4283-4733-980b-48fee4d4d46c-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8575c1f5-ebbb-470b-ab56-6f457ce03b0b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9448\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8575c1f5-ebbb-470b-ab56-6f457ce03b0b-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/a35403e3-5f28-4e10-8eb6-d3023cb7f033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9449\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/a35403e3-5f28-4e10-8eb6-d3023cb7f033-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dd64c2c8-71f6-434d-9995-59986586eea2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9450\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dd64c2c8-71f6-434d-9995-59986586eea2-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backyard Garden meetings Restarted\u00a0by Carol-Faye Bynoe-George On Tuesday 30th\u00a0April, the first Backyard Garden meeting since the Covid Pandemic was held at the Agricultural Extension Division located in the Old PDO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-notices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9452,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions\/9452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}