{"id":178,"date":"2025-07-29T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/?p=178"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:32:05","slug":"selma-growing-food-building-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/selma-growing-food-building-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Selma: Growing Food, Building Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Residents of the iconic city of Selma rediscover vegetable gardening to build a more sustainable and resilient community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" src=\"http:\/\/cejm.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RevTyusSmiles.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-369 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" data-id=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/cejm.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Sethsmilesduring-hardwork.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-364\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seth Scott works at the Local Farm Co op garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A stimulus for the residents is the Selma Local Farm Co-op, which is trying to build community by encouraging people \u2013 young and old \u2013 to grow their own food. The goal is to use the three-acre plot as a centerpiece for the West Village\u2019s revival with the hope that the movement can affect the whole city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the iconic city of Selma rediscover vegetable gardening to build a more sustainable and resilient community. A stimulus for the residents is the Selma Local Farm Co-op, which is trying to build community by encouraging people \u2013 young and old \u2013 to grow their own food. The goal is to use the three-acre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,13,12,8,9,11],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-alabama","tag-civil-rights","tag-food-deserts","tag-protect","tag-selma","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejm.media\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}