{"id":68848,"date":"2005-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-researchers-seek-volunteers-for-study-of-food-safe-home-gardening-practices\/"},"modified":"2005-06-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T00:00:00","slug":"uri-researchers-seek-volunteers-for-study-of-food-safe-home-gardening-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/06\/uri-researchers-seek-volunteers-for-study-of-food-safe-home-gardening-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"URI researchers seek volunteers for study of food-safe home gardening practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; June 3, 2005 &#8212; If you grow fruits or vegetables in a home garden for your own consumption, then University of Rhode Island researchers want your help.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tURI is one of five New England universities conducting a study to evaluate how aware home gardeners are of food safety issues and if they use safe growing and handling practices.  The information gathered will be used to help design food safety educational materials for home gardeners.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cThis is a knowledge-based study to see what gardeners know and don\u2019t know about food safety practices,\u201d said Lori Pivarnik, URI food safety educator.  \u201cWe\u2019re interested in their food safety knowledge beginning with when they prepare the soil in their garden to the time the food reaches the dinner table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tParticipants in the study will be interviewed at their home for about one hour by two URI Master Gardeners in June or July.  A refrigerator thermometer and a meat thermometer will be given to each volunteer in appreciation of their participation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFor more information or to volunteer to participate, call Martha Patnoad or Lori Pivarnik at the URI Cooperative Extension at 401-874-2900.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; June 3, 2005 &#8212; If you grow fruits or vegetables in a home garden for your own consumption, then University of Rhode Island researchers want your help. &#13; URI is one of five New England universities conducting a study to evaluate how aware home gardeners are of food safety issues and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}