{"id":3903,"date":"2019-07-20T22:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2019-07-20T22:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:13:07","slug":"whos-behind-those-vegetables-in-the-produce-aisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/whos-behind-those-vegetables-in-the-produce-aisle\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Behind Those Vegetables in the Produce Aisle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3905\" src=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Farm-Worker-Appriciation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Farm-Worker-Appriciation.png 940w, https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Farm-Worker-Appriciation-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Farm-Worker-Appriciation-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was humbled by appreciation today.\u00a0 My CSA farm couldn&#8217;t find enough workers to keep up with the harvest so a number of members volunteered to help pick cucumbers and garlic.\u00a0 Kneel down, bend over, lift, squat, lift, then repeat, again and again.\u00a0 We kept up with the back-breaking work for three hours or so.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the regular farm workers had started much earlier and would continue on late into the day and then come back and repeat tomorrow and the next day and the next.<\/p>\n<p>I was deeply moved by a sense of appreciation for those hard workers&#8211;who are out there on even the hottest days.\u00a0 Where would all us healthy eaters be without those hands behind the lovely fruits and veggies that fill the produce aisles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was humbled by appreciation today.\u00a0 My CSA farm couldn&#8217;t find enough workers to keep up with the harvest so a number of members volunteered to help pick cucumbers and garlic.\u00a0 Kneel down, bend over, lift, squat, lift, then repeat, again and again.\u00a0 We kept up with the back-breaking work for three hours or so. &#8230; <a title=\"Who&#8217;s Behind Those Vegetables in the Produce Aisle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/whos-behind-those-vegetables-in-the-produce-aisle\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,1],"tags":[723,722,724],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-and-sustainable-eating","category-seasonal-eating","category-uncategorized","tag-farm-labor","tag-farm-workers","tag-food-justice","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}