{"id":42877,"date":"2026-08-13T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42877"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:30:34","slug":"furman-farm-visitors-highlight-their-day-in-the-simpsonville-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-farm-visitors-highlight-their-day-in-the-simpsonville-sentinel\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Farm visitors highlight their day in the Simpsonville Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simpsonville-sentinel.com\/the-news\/read-news.php?sid=1343\">The Simpsonville Sentinel<\/a> reports on a July visit by the Mauldin Garden Club to the Furman Farm, where members traded note-taking for weed-pulling on a &#8220;work and learn&#8221; morning. Farm manager Bruce Adams and student interns showed the group around the quarter-acre organic garden, teaching the group about on-campus composting practices before putting visitors to work weeding raised beds, pinching basil blossoms and planting collard seeds in freshly turned soil.<\/p>\n<p>The farm, run through the Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities, doubles as a teaching tool for students and a produce source for the campus dining hall, meaning the garden club&#8217;s collards may turn up on a Furman lunch tray this fall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauldin Garden Club members roll up their sleeves at Furman Farm, learning organic gardening and composting techniques from farm manager Bruce Adams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":37123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42880,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42877\/revisions\/42880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}