{"id":72914,"date":"2025-12-05T20:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72914\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:52:47","slug":"eckerd-college-students-hone-knife-skills-with-campus-produce-in-free-class-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72914\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd College students hone knife skills with campus produce in free class &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local nutritionist and educator Wendy Wesley led the event sponsored by the EC Community Farm, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/academics\/speaker-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eckerd College Program Series<\/a>. With a mix of practical instruction and nutritional insight, Wesley guided students through the essentials, from learning how to properly cut an onion to prepping produce grown right on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Among the participants was Amelia Swiecki, a junior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/environmental-studies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">environmental studies<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/eckerd.edu\/biology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">biology<\/a> student from Crystal Lake, Illinois, who serves as student manager of Eckerd\u2019s Community Supported Agriculture program at the farm and spends plenty of her free time helping veggies thrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was going to be a great opportunity to learn how to cook with some of the fresh vegetables that we grow right here,\u201d Amelia says. \u201cHarvesting greens from the farm, chopping them and then eating them was a very full-circle moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local nutritionist and educator Wendy Wesley led the event sponsored by the EC Community Farm, as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-72914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72914","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=72914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}