{"id":88150,"date":"2023-09-22T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=88150"},"modified":"2023-09-22T15:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:41:15","slug":"brock-community-invited-to-pay-what-you-can-produce-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/09\/brock-community-invited-to-pay-what-you-can-produce-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock community invited to pay-what-you-can produce market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An upcoming initiative will provide the Brock community with an affordable way to access fresh produce.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place on the second floor of Mackenzie Chown A Block near the entrance to the Goodman School of Business, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/316\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food First Fresh Produce Market<\/a> will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU), the Brock University Graduate Students\u2019 Association (GSA) and Student Life and Success in partnership with United Way Niagara, the event invites anyone from the Brock community to fill a basket of fresh produce at a pay-what-you-can rate.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a limit of one basket per person and only credit or debit payments will be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The Food First Fresh Produce Market is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/services\/food-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food First program<\/a> first introduced in 2016 by BUSU to address growing issues of food and health insecurities among Canadian post-secondary students.<\/p>\n<p>The program gives grocery gift cards to students as well as fresh food options throughout the academic year, including hot and quick-serve breakfast initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>BUSU Vice-President, University Affairs Carleigh Charlton said the rising cost of food has made the program more important than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents are already facing the cost-of-living crisis\u00a0that many Canadians are worrying about, but with the added financial burdens that often accompany\u00a0post-secondary\u00a0study, this leaves some\u00a0undergraduate students\u00a0wondering\u00a0how they are going to afford their next meal,&#8221; she said &#8220;It is\u00a0our hope to help relieve this stress for as many students as possible, ensure they are starting their day\u00a0right, and help students\u00a0thrive and focus on\u00a0their academics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Food First program and the Food First Fresh Produce Market, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/services\/food-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BUSU\u2019s Food First website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upcoming initiative will provide the Brock community with an affordable way to access fresh produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7484],"tags":[133,12951,9570,12952,2479,497],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88159,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88150\/revisions\/88159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}