{"id":1859,"date":"2026-03-20T22:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:03:23","slug":"westlake-school-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/2026\/03\/20\/westlake-school-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlake School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8e2a42007032fa7c82bcc5eee86ccf6c\" style=\"color:#06786d\">Westfield<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Growing with Purpose: Supporting Our Community One Herb at a Time<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Our students have continued to work weekly during their science period to care for our indoor greenhouse. They have planted herbs, which we have proudly sold throughout the school, building both responsibility and real-world vocational skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">As our plants continue to grow, we are excited to share our harvest by delivering fresh herbs to the Cranford Food Pantry in June. Looking ahead, we are especially excited to expand our efforts into the community by transplanting our indoor plants into the school\u2019s outdoor garden, where they will have the space and environment to truly thrive and reach their full growth potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Westlake-school-student-opening-a-bag-of-garden-soil-711x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Westlake school student opening a bag of garden soil\" class=\"wp-image-1862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Westlake-school-student-opening-a-bag-of-garden-soil-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Westlake-school-student-opening-a-bag-of-garden-soil-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Westlake-school-student-opening-a-bag-of-garden-soil-767x1106.jpg 767w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Westlake-school-student-opening-a-bag-of-garden-soil-1066x1536.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Westlake-school-student-opening-a-bag-of-garden-soil-1200x1729.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Westlake-school-student-opening-a-bag-of-garden-soil.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westfield Growing with Purpose: Supporting Our Community One Herb at a Time Our students have continued to work weekly during their science period to care for our indoor greenhouse. They have planted herbs, which we have proudly sold throughout the school, building both responsibility and real-world vocational skills. As our plants continue to grow, we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","tag-westfield"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"1970-01-01 00:00:00","action":"","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","browser_timezone_offset":0},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/plant-a-seed-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}