{"id":2612,"date":"2015-10-06T05:29:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T10:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2015-10-05T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T23:06:59","slug":"oct-6-fresh-future-farms-macon-market-stand-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/oct-6-fresh-future-farms-macon-market-stand-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 13 &#8211; Fresh Future Farm&#8217;s Macon Market &#8220;STAND OPENING&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Farm Stand Opening will be open to the public from<br \/>\n3 pm \u2013 6 pm on Tuesday, October 13th<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-765\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freshfuturefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/farmstand.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-765 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/freshfuturefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/farmstand-201x300.png\" alt=\"Come Celebrate our &quot;STAND OPENING!&quot;\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 201px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 201\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Come Celebrate our &#8220;STAND OPENING!&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Until renovations are complete on a donated modular building, FFF plans to host <strong>weekly farm stands<\/strong> for the community. Fresh Future Farm is focused on improving the environment by growing and selling organic produce and basic groceries in a food desert and accepting SNAP (food stamp benefits) as a sustainable way to improve community, create jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities and alleviate hunger for nutrient dense foods.<\/p>\n<p>A full year after receiving a five-year lease and business zoning from the City of North Charleston, FFF has transformed a .81 acre empty lot into an active farm and is ready to accept SNAP (food stamp) benefits, cash and debit purchases for a variety of farm fresh produce including okra, eggplant, sweet and hot peppers, cherry tomatoes, herbs, pumpkins, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure a wide variety of offerings, other area farms are donating produce to this effort including Lowcountry Street Grocery, Sweetgrass Garden, Fields to Families\u2019 OASIS outreach program and Sow Seasonal Farm.<\/p>\n<p>FFF will also work with area food purveyors to sell fresh fruit.<\/p>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/freshfuturefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FFF-FarmStandOpening-PR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE<\/a>]\n[GOOD CREDIT]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Farm Stand Opening will be open to the public from 3 pm \u2013 6 pm on Tuesday, October 13th Until renovations<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/oct-6-fresh-future-farms-macon-market-stand-opening\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,19,40,22,18,26,5,57,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}