{"id":255851,"date":"2026-05-02T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255851\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:41:08","slug":"learning-garden-opens-next-to-winter-park-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255851\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Garden opens next to Winter Park Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green thumbs need practice. That\u2019s the goal for the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Learning Garden, which held its opening celebration in April.\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51085\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Learning-Garden-exterior-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-51085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Learning Garden opened to the public on April 14. (NICK GEORGOUDIOU)<\/p>\n<p>Located next to the Winter Park Library, the garden was developed by Winter Park\u2019s Natural Resources &amp; Sustainability and Parks &amp; Recreation departments, along with the Winter Park Library and University of Florida Institute of Food and Agriculture Services Extension Orange County. In addition, O-Town Compost is donating the compost being used in the garden.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51093\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Learning-Garden-StoryWalk-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-51093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path from the Winter Park Library to the Learning Garden includes a StoryWalk activity that will be updated regularly. (NICK GEORGOUDIOU)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51089\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Learning-Garden-library-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-51089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The placement of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Learning Garden is strategic. Educational programming produced by the Winter Park Library will be a key component of the new space. (NICK GEORGOUDIOU)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green thumbs need practice. That\u2019s the goal for the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Learning Garden, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-255851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}