{"id":7042,"date":"2021-04-15T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=7042"},"modified":"2024-05-15T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:46:25","slug":"chill-out-in-our-edible-garden","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/knowledge-base\/chill-out-in-our-edible-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Chill out in our edible garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">With \u2018active gardening\u2019 shown to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcv.org.uk\/greengym\/health-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reduce anxiety by 26%<\/a> and \u2018connecting with nature\u2019 resulting in 30% more people\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/story\/20160420-how-nature-is-good-for-our-health-and-happiness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporting their health as \u2018excellent\u2019<\/a>; getting involved in our campus community gardens and growing spaces could be the perfect way for you to boost your wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Last year with the funding and support of the Estates and Sustainability Teams, LED lights and a pizza oven were installed so that garden could be enjoyed all year round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Activities this academic year have included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Regular sessions to take care of the plants, trees and wildlife such as a pond which attracts frogs, and a range of water insects.<\/li><li>Artists using the garden for outdoor drawing<\/li><li>Biosciences students studying the habits of feeding birds<\/li><li>Japanese high school students learning about English plants and writing nature poems<\/li><li>Pizza parties with the help of the woodfired oven<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting involved in our campus community gardens and growing spaces could be the perfect way for you to boost your wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":129000002715,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"1","footnotes":""},"schools":[],"campuses":[],"subject_area":[],"ht-kb-category":[368],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-7042","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ht_kb_category-prospectus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/7042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/7042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7073,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/7042\/revisions\/7073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"schools","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/schools?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"campuses","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campuses?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"subject_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject_area?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}