{"id":244,"date":"2024-11-12T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T15:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/?p=244"},"modified":"2024-11-12T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T15:38:59","slug":"gleaning-project-with-the-university-of-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2024\/11\/12\/gleaning-project-with-the-university-of-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Gleaning Project with the University of Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Sales Manager Sandra recently joined the ResLife team for their gleaning initiative. The team partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/fareshare.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FareShare UK<\/a> to support the University of Kent&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/right-to-food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Right to Food<\/a>&#8216; programme.<\/p>\n<p>Staff and students visited a local farm near Teynham in Kent to glean Brabourne apples that would otherwise have been left to rot on the trees.<\/p>\n<p>FareShare took some of the apples to distribute to local food banks and charities. Others were brought back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/\">University of Kent<\/a> to give to our students, and one of our amazing chefs hosted a cookery class with students in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>We were joined by ITV Meridian at the farm, who filmed a piece on the gleaning project. You can watch the news piece <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=41ee5d5a-b757-4204-820b-523a9afb739b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to participating in the next gleaning trip and contributing to a more sustainable University.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-281\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2024\/10\/Gleaning-project.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-285\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2024\/11\/Gleaning-produce.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-286\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2024\/11\/ResLife-Team-Gleaning.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"929\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Sales Manager Sandra recently joined the ResLife team for their gleaning initiative. The team partnered with FareShare UK to support the University of Kent&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2024\/11\/12\/gleaning-project-with-the-university-of-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82915,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291428,957,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}