{"id":433,"date":"2021-03-08T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T23:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=433"},"modified":"2021-03-08T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T23:20:44","slug":"roots-stems-leaves-and-flowers-investigating-how-our-food-is-grown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/roots-stems-leaves-and-flowers-investigating-how-our-food-is-grown\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Roots, Stems, Leaves, and Flowers&#8217;: Investigating How Our Food is Grown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are diving into a salad or a bowl of mashed potatoes, do you think about where your vegetables come from? Do you think about how they grow? Today, our class investigated how the vegetables we eat are grown&#8230; whether they are roots, tubers, leaves, stems, or flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The vegetables we examined were: artichokes, mushrooms, turnips, broccoli, lettuce, radish, brussels sprouts, yams, green onions, beets, and asparagus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-434\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/beet-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/beet-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/beet-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/beet.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-435\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/mushroom-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/mushroom-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/mushroom-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/mushroom.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-436\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/yam-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/yam-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/yam-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/yam.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular examples of a &#8216;tuber&#8217; is a potato! Check\u00a0 out how they are grown (under the ground) below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Earthy Potatoes: how do potatoes grow?\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYBuY-DnCJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are diving into a salad or a bowl of mashed potatoes, do you think about where your vegetables come from? Do you think about how they grow? Today, our class investigated how the vegetables we eat are grown&#8230; whether they are roots, tubers, leaves, stems, or flowers. The vegetables we examined were: artichokes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/roots-stems-leaves-and-flowers-investigating-how-our-food-is-grown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Roots, Stems, Leaves, and Flowers&#8217;: Investigating How Our Food is Grown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}