Citrus is in season this time of year and the E3 Fruit Team of the Fullerton Arboretum have collected as many oranges as they could to prepare and giveaway to the public for their event,\u00a0 Slices and Smiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The inaugural event featured three items for the general public to try, made by the team: sweet fruit juice, orange slices and immunity shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The regular fruit juice and orange slices were deemed more suited for adults and kids, while the immunity shots, featuring spices like cayenne, were only catered to the adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jarryd Sarmiento, team lead of the E3 Fruit Team and second-year business major, mentioned how almost everything was grown and made by them, only using a couple of outside resources for the immunity shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the immunity shots, we did have to go get ginger and turmeric for those, that would be only outside things, but everything else (is from the Arboretum),\u201d Sarmiento said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The interns provided an acrylic stand of the recipes to make the immunity shots and orange juice, labeling them \u201cSunshine Kick\u201d and \u201cGolden Rush\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n
Coloring stations with themed prints were also available for guests and children, serving a greater purpose beyond the E3 Fruit Team\u2019s event. Surprisingly, there happened to be another event coexisting with Slices and Smiles.<\/p>\n
The early childhood engagement team of the Arboretum hosted their Little Explorers sensory event within the Children\u2019s Garden and prepared activities for the little ones such as a scavenger hunt, story-time and arts and crafts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Slices and Smiles served as the tasting portion of the scavenger hunt since the other team didn\u2019t have a taste station to begin with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Edleen Suh, E3 graduate assistant and an environmental studies graduate student, said that teams often double up on events to make event work easier and to help with interteam coordination.<\/p>\n
Overall, the two events had a huge turnout in the end resulting in the E3 Fruit Team\u2019s goods running out and the early childhood engagement team\u2019s activities staying occupied.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Placentia residents Katie Esparza and Katie Tobias came to the Arboretum with their kids specifically for the children\u2019s event.<\/p>\n
Along the way, they stopped by the E3 Fruit Team\u2019s table to try out the citrus items. Esparza and her daughter took tangerines home while Tobias and her son opted for juice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy motivator was to get her (Esparza\u2019s daughter) outside of the house and just exploring because they\u2019re so used to being indoors watching TV,\u201d Esparza said. \u201cI think just any excuse to get them out, just to discover and see new things is really cool.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the near future, the E3 Fruit Team interns are planning on hosting another Slices and Smiles, but will be incorporating different aspects to separate what they executed this semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One idea, according to Sarmiento, would be having the guests pay an admission fee to pick fruits off of their trees. While it\u2019s still up in the air, the event is marked on the calendar for future semesters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people come here to the Arboretum for an intern event, we hope that they take something environmental with them,\u201d Suh said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s remembering that we coexist with nature or teaching the little ones to be respectful of the environment around them.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citrus is in season this time of year and the E3 Fruit Team of the Fullerton Arboretum have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,23262,1043,1431,21059,93886],"class_list":["post-202316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-arboretum","tag-event","tag-family","tag-fruit","tag-outdoor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}