{"id":252,"date":"2013-06-11T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:10:37","slug":"alex-kims-veggie-bike-helps-iwu-peace-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/2013\/06\/11\/alex-kims-veggie-bike-helps-iwu-peace-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Kim&#8217;s &#8217;13 Veggie Bike Helps IWU Peace Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/03-alum-kim-alex-202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253 aligncenter\" alt=\"03-alum-kim-alex-202\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/03-alum-kim-alex-202.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Kim created a bike as an environmentally friendly vehicle that can be used for distribution of the Peace Garden\u2019s produce. According to Kim, the Veggie Bike is, \u201cA bike-powered trailer that was created with the intent of aiding the IWU Peace Garden in its efforts to exemplify and maintain sustainable principles through practice. In short, it will help the Peace Garden be as green as possible.\u201d \u00a0The Peace Garden, established by junior political science major Ryan Dyar and senior environmental studies and Hispanic studies double major Danny Kenny, is the campus garden created to grow produce for Illinois Wesleyan\u2019s food provider, Sodexo and the Bloomington-Normal community.\u00a0 Students and faculty volunteer their time in order to help the Peace Garden flourish.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Veggie Bike\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2013\/images\/03-image-veggie-bike-302.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"187\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The idea of a Veggie Bike came about during discussions on where the harvested food would be delivered. \u201cThere are several places around Bloomington that accept food donations from the garden already, and hopes are that additional places like the Farmers&#8217; Market and places in West Bloomington might be new venues of distribution,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Kim created a bike as an environmentally friendly vehicle that can be used for distribution of the Peace Garden\u2019s produce. According to Kim, the Veggie Bike is, \u201cA bike-powered trailer that was created with the intent of aiding the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/2013\/06\/11\/alex-kims-veggie-bike-helps-iwu-peace-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2012classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}