{"id":23807,"date":"2014-11-10T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23807"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T13:55:31","slug":"la-comunidad-grows-182-lbs-of-food-for-chesco-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23807","title":{"rendered":"La Comunidad grows 182 lbs of food for Chesco Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_975992\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LCHGardens-2014-300x234.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-975992\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-975992\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"LCHGardens-2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LCHGardens-2014-300x234.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-975992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Comunidad Hispana in Kennett Square was able to raise some 182 pounds of food for the Chester County Food Bank, thanks to the hard work of volunteers such as Carin Bonifacino and Jos\u00e9 Lopez Zamudio, among others.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Two La Comunidad Hispana Community Garden Beds grew 182 pounds of food in connection with the Chester County Food Bank\u2019s raised garden bed program. LCH operated the garden beds between April 30 and October 30 this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to our volunteers and support from the Food Bank we grew enough food to feed about 40 people for an entire day,\u201d said Laura Milazzo Mackiewicz, LCH\u2019s Event and Volunteer Coordinator.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The crops included, 51 banana peppers, 155 bell peppers, 4 heads of broccoli, 63 heads of lettuce, 108 radishes. 141 collard greens (about 14 large bunches), 240 tomatoes, basil and cilantro.<\/p>\n<p>LCH\u201ds beds were planted at the end of April outside the organization\u2019s offices at\u00a0731 West Cypress Street.<\/p>\n<p>The food bank is fighting hunger in the community with better nutrition from locally grown, fresh food. Volunteers from all over the county have partnered with the cause, constructing and tending to gardens. Their harvest is gathered and distributed to the local food cupboards where, along with non-perishable food items, residents who are hungry can get the food they need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Two La Comunidad Hispana Community Garden Beds grew 182 pounds of food in connection with the Chester County Food Bank\u2019s raised garden bed program. LCH operated the garden beds between April 30 and October 30 this year. \u201cThanks to our volunteers and support from the Food Bank we grew enough food to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[349,3267,6368],"class_list":["post-23807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county-food-bank","tag-garden","tag-la-comunidad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}