{"id":4706,"date":"2017-03-03T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=4706"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:39:51","slug":"lettuce-grow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/lettuce-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Lettuce Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Lettuce Grow heading graphic\" width=\"572\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Marshall University Sustainability \u00a0is pleased to announce their partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/Lettucegrow.csemploy.org\">The Lettuce Grow Project<\/a> of Huntington WV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Lettuce Grow Project provides a meaningful urban gardening experience in a fully integrated setting for\u00a0young adults with developmental disabilities and Autism. They teach urban gardening techniques in a person centered\u00a0supported learning environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Their highly structured training program teaches participant\u2019s urban gardening techniques, including skills such\u00a0as planting, harvesting, crop management and sales in the local food network. The program is supported\u00a0through strong partnerships with us and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/atc\/\">Autism Training Center<\/a>, as well as relationships with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unlimitedfuture.org\/\">Unlimited Futures, Inc.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wildramp.org\/\">The Wild Ramp<\/a> in Huntington, WV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/LGrow_1page-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/LGrow_1page-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image of lettuce plants\" width=\"325\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/LGrow_1page-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/LGrow_1page-2.jpg\" alt=\"Image of plants in pots in rows\" width=\"325\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the 2017 growing season are planting micro-greens, lettuce, spinach, and herbs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more information about this program, please contact:<\/p>\n<p>Sara Loftus<br \/>\nExecutive Director<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centersupportedemployment.org\/\">Center for Supported Learning<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sloftus@csemploy.org\">sloftus@csemploy.org<\/a>\u00a0or 304.633.2309<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Marshall University Sustainability \u00a0is pleased to announce their partnership with The Lettuce Grow Project of Huntington WV. The Lettuce Grow Project provides a meaningful urban gardening experience in a fully integrated setting for\u00a0young adults with developmental disabilities and Autism. They teach urban gardening techniques in a person centered\u00a0supported learning environment. Their highly structured training program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4706","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4706\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}