{"id":166,"date":"2021-12-17T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T14:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2022-04-19T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:21:02","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VCCG History and Leadership<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 2017, the Poughkeepsie Farm Project handed over management of the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Community<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Garden<\/span>\u00a0to a team of volunteers, all of whom are\u00a0<span class=\"il\">garden<\/span>\u00a0members. The current\u00a0<span class=\"il\">garden<\/span>\u00a0managers, elected in September of 2018, are Mary Nisley (plot 6C&amp;D), Myra Hughey (21G&amp;H), Carlie Graves (9A&amp;B). We manage all aspects of the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">gardens<\/span>\u00a0from registration and finances to the maintenance of the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">garden<\/span>\u00a0space to fielding questions to resolving issues within the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">gardens<\/span>. We hope to make the Vassar College\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Community\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"il\">Gardens<\/span>\u00a0a better space for everyone.\u00a0 You may contact us at vccomgardens@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid 2010s, the VCCG was fenced to protect the plots from deer, with funding provided by Vassar College.\u00a0 After the fencing was installed, gardeners were permitted to keep the same plot from year to year, giving each gardener a chance to steward their plot for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to management by the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, the VCCG plots were managed by garden volunteer Ginny Banks for many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VCCG History and Leadership In 2017, the Poughkeepsie Farm Project handed over management of the\u00a0Community\u00a0Garden\u00a0to a team of volunteers, all of whom are\u00a0garden\u00a0members. The current\u00a0garden\u00a0managers, elected in September of 2018, are Mary Nisley (plot 6C&amp;D), Myra Hughey (21G&amp;H), Carlie Graves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10039,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-166","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}