{"id":87222,"date":"2021-06-04T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=87222"},"modified":"2024-07-04T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T10:51:10","slug":"episode-7-monica-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/episode-7-monica-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 7: Monica Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/19345658\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hear from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dig This!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> radio show host and book author Monica Clark about her work to dispel the myths surrounding food access. Monica speaks honestly about her experience of job loss and homelessness in Seattle and how growing her own food in a community garden sustained her during this time. Listen to an excerpt from Monica\u2019s book, \u201cMentor the Garden Mentor: A 12-Month Gardening Curriculum for Low-Income\/Ethnic\/Marginalized Communities and the Organizations the Serve Them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monica also tells us about using her own experience of shopping for food with SNAP\/EBT (formerly known as food stamps) to help farmers accept SNAP dollars, the same as they would a credit card or debit card. Hear about the nonprofit Cooperative Gardens Commission\u2019s founding during the pandemic and the work they\u2019ve done to help people get started gardening, including establishing and supporting more than 250 seed hubs!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be sure to listen to the end of the podcast for the No. 1, most important gardening advice Monica can offer, which she\u2019s polished through decades of experience in gardening across the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/growforfood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monica Clark on Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/whivfm.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dig This! radio program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Saturdays, 2-4 pm Central)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mentorthegardenmentor\/mentor-the-garden-mentor\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mentor The Garden Mentor book<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coopgardens.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooperative Gardens Commission<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOBBY FARMS PRESENTS: GROWING GOOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Episode 7: Monica Clark - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hear from Dig This! 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