{"id":136,"date":"2012-07-23T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cccusustainability.wordpress.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2023-01-27T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T09:37:14","slug":"meet-the-augustine-house-green-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/meet-the-augustine-house-green-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Augustine House Green Team!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by guest blogger, Jolene, of the AH Green Team<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well the Augustine House green team took the green theme and we went back to nature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;by obtaining and filing planters!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-zoe-waterfield.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137\" title=\"AH planters with Zoe Waterfield\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-zoe-waterfield.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-zoe-waterfield.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-zoe-waterfield-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-zoe-waterfield-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-zoe-waterfield-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-zoe-waterfield-680x510.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have been lucky enough to have a fine crop of helpers in AH.&nbsp; So many people have contributed by bringing in seeds and plants that we have been able to designated one of planters as floral and one as edibles.<\/p>\n<p>Having a planter means that we will all be able to reap the benefits of nature; whether it is eating a fresh tomato, smelling the sweet peas, looking at the flowers or watching the butterflies and bees sampling our goodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-sarah-and-yasmin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138\" title=\"AH planters with Sarah and Yasmin\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-sarah-and-yasmin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-sarah-and-yasmin.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-sarah-and-yasmin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-sarah-and-yasmin-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-sarah-and-yasmin-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/669\/2012\/07\/ah-planters-with-sarah-and-yasmin-680x510.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having a <em>communal<\/em> planter means that we are all able to reap the benefits of nature, without doing ALL of the hard work.&nbsp; In real terms it means that these planters will get the same care as my houseplants (which I will freely admit, involves minimal effort). Maintaining the planters between a group of you means that if each of us puts in a bit of time once a week, whether this is pulling up a couple of weeds or tying up some stragglers, then we can keep our garden growing well and looking good.<\/p>\n<p>We are proud of our planter success and hope that others will be too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by guest blogger, Jolene, of the AH Green Team Well the Augustine House green team took the green theme and we went back to nature&#8230; &#8230;by obtaining and filing planters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Felicity Brambling-Wells","featuredImage":false,"postExcerpt":"by guest blogger, Jolene, of the AH Green Team Well the Augustine House green team took the green theme and we went back to nature&#8230; &#8230;by obtaining and filing planters!","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16510,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/16510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}