{"id":2296,"date":"2016-12-01T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-134\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T10:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T18:09:52","slug":"growing-a-life","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/growing-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/growing-life.jpg\" alt=\"Growing a life book jacket\" align=\"left\" \/>For anyone who would like to understand more about the empowering effect of programs like Seattle Youth Garden Works and the UW Farm, I highly recommend Ill\u00e8ne Pevec&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=16518\"> Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy.<\/a> The author transcribes her face-to-face interviews with 90 youth gardeners participating in twelve different programs across the country. Her goal is to discover how growing food at their school, community center, or non-profit organization affects these teens&#8217; health as well as the attitudes, job prospects, and hopes for the future they share. The result is inspirational!<\/p>\n<p>Published in the December 2016 <em>Leaflet for Scholars<\/em> Volume 3, Issue 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who would like to understand more about the empowering effect of programs like Seattle Youth Garden Works and the UW Farm, I highly recommend Ill\u00e8ne Pevec&#8217;s Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy. The author transcribes her face-to-face interviews with 90 youth gardeners participating in twelve different programs across the country. Her goal is to discover how growing food at their school, community center, or non-profit organization affects these teens&#8217; health as well as the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/growing-a-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[326,22],"class_list":["post-2296","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-childrens-gardens-and-programs","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}