{"id":18545,"date":"2019-07-25T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining-draft\/?p=18545"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:53:06","slug":"uriagronomypartner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/uriagronomypartner\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Agronomy Farm our Hyper-local Campus Partner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a working partnership with URI Agronomy Farm!&nbsp;<br \/>\nFrom zucchini and eggplant, to watermelon and herbs &#8211; we source what we can from the farms here at the University.<\/p>\n<p>With over 2 acres in production, the URI Agronomy Farm grows a little bit of everything. Proceeds from the vegetable sales to Dining Services help support the farm. Both undergrad and grad students are involved in every aspect of vegetable production from planting to harvest.<\/p>\n<p>The produce grown on campus is utilized in the dining halls and Catering. Additionally, a portion&nbsp;of every harvest is sent to the Rhody Outpost, the university&#8217;s food pantry. Any extra produce from the 10,000+ pounds&nbsp;annually is donated to the Jonnycake Center in Peacedale or to the Rhode Island Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>We have a student-driven waste diversion&nbsp;program that was able to remove over 30,000 pounds of organic waste from the landfill in the past school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a working partnership with URI Agronomy Farm!&nbsp; From zucchini and eggplant, to watermelon and herbs &#8211; we source what we can from the farms here at the University. With over 2 acres in production, the URI Agronomy Farm grows a little bit of everything. Proceeds from the vegetable sales to Dining Services help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43423,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions\/43423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/dining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}