{"id":206,"date":"2008-05-31T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-05-01T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:51:11","slug":"grace-from-the-garden-changing-the-world-one-garden-at-a-time-by-debra-engle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/grace-from-the-garden-changing-the-world-one-garden-at-a-time-by-debra-engle\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace from the Garden: Changing the World One Garden at a Time by Debra Engle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Grace from the Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/grace-from-the-garden.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/grace-from-the-garden.jpg?w=1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Grace from the Garden\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Grace from the Garden<\/em><\/strong> by Debra Engle talks about gardening of course, but really it&#8217;s about how people pulling together can make a difference. These graceful essays show how gardening and gardeners, in all their wide diversity, affect lives and make the world a little friendlier. Some of the projects described include:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">-An inner city community garden run by an former professional basketball player<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">-&#8220;Garden Angels&#8221;, a group of volunteers who install and maintain small gardens for elderly who are no longer physically able to<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">-Juvenile offenders who work off community service hours in a local vegetable garden where they learn to give back<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">-A doctor in the United States who has built greenhouses for hospitals in famine-threatened North Korea<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">-The story of the Portland Memory Garden, built for people suffering from Alzheimer&#8217;s and their caregivers<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Gardens, whether big or small change, heal, and draw people together making the world better for all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace from the Garden by Debra Engle talks about gardening of course, but really it&#8217;s about how people pulling together can make a difference. These graceful essays show how gardening and gardeners, in all their wide diversity, affect lives and make the world a little friendlier. Some of the projects<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/grace-from-the-garden-changing-the-world-one-garden-at-a-time-by-debra-engle\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}