{"id":184900,"date":"2023-10-05T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=184900"},"modified":"2023-10-10T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:22:21","slug":"october-is-plantiful-kingstonians-encouraged-to-eat-sustainably-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/october-is-plantiful-kingstonians-encouraged-to-eat-sustainably-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;October is PLANTIFUL&#8217;: Kingstonians encouraged to eat sustainably this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">October 2023 is \u201cPLANTIFUL,\u201d as proclaimed by Mayor Paterson on behalf of Kingston city council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">350 Kingston, a local organization which advocates for environmental sustainability in Kingston on various fronts, brought the initiative before council last month, citing the city\u2019s declaration of climate emergency, their desire to actively support environmentally friendly initiatives, and the bountiful October harvest for local farmers as reasons for this designation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary Jane Philp, member of 350 Kingston, explains the reason behind the event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe asked the city to declare that \"October is PLANTIFUL\" and during that month, we would offer gathered together events that are already happening that relate to this but also create some of our own, which includes three webinars that we're doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the month of October, 350 Kingston and their partners will be sharing resources and hosting awareness-building events to encourage Kingstonians to eat sustainably and explore plant-based options. Events will include information booths at various local farmer\u2019s markets, three webinars, including lectures and a cook-a-long activity, and a potluck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philp states, \u201cthis [initiative] was kind of an obvious choice, because it is the harvest and it's something that we all can do every day. We all do it every day. We eat. So this is a thing that we can all do to make a difference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can visit the 350 Kingston <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/350kingston.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for details regarding \u201cOctober is PLANTIFUL\u201d events and resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2023 is \u201cPLANTIFUL,\u201d as proclaimed by Mayor Paterson on behalf of Kingston city council.\u00a0 350 Kingston, a local organization which advocates for environmental sustainability in Kingston on various fronts, brought the initiative before council last month, citing the city\u2019s declaration of climate emergency, their desire to actively support environmentally friendly initiatives, and the bountiful&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":184955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[30468,31108,6056,29841,25463,31106,31107],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184900"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185748,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184900\/revisions\/185748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184900"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=184900"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=184900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}