{"id":890,"date":"2016-09-30T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/?p=890"},"modified":"2016-09-30T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T00:16:47","slug":"cdfas-secretary-karen-ross-kicks-off-the-state-employees-food-drive-by-donating-farm-fresh-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"CDFA&#8217;s Secretary Karen Ross kicks off the State Employees Food Drive by donating farm fresh produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/secretary-ross-at-farmers-market-620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-891 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/secretary-ross-at-farmers-market-620.jpg\" alt=\"secretary ross at farmers market 620\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/secretary-ross-at-farmers-market-620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/secretary-ross-at-farmers-market-620-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secretary Karen Ross visited the Capitol Mall Farmers&#8217; Market to kickoff the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooddrive.ca.gov\/\">State Employees Food Drive<\/a>\u00a0by purchasing and donating over 20 pounds of fruits and vegetables\u00a0from local farmers.\u00a0The CDFA Office of Farm to Fork organized a fresh produce drive along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/sacrft.com\/\">Reverse Food Truck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rivercityfoodbank.org\/\">River City Food Bank<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacramentofoodbank.org\/\">Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services<\/a>, encouraging state employees to purchase produce at the market and donate it through the Reverse Food Truck. Throughout the market&#8217;s duration over 450 pounds of produce were donated.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=11632\">here <\/a>to view the full story of Secretary Ross&#8217; visit to the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary Karen Ross visited the Capitol Mall Farmers&#8217; Market to kickoff the State Employees Food Drive\u00a0by purchasing and donating over 20 pounds of fruits and vegetables\u00a0from local farmers.\u00a0The CDFA Office of Farm to Fork organized a fresh produce drive along with the Reverse Food Truck, River City Food Bank and the Sacramento Food Bank and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-farm-to-fork-website"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4z2wv-em","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/TalesFromTheField\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}