{"id":184,"date":"2018-01-10T03:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/?p=184"},"modified":"2018-01-23T07:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:34:32","slug":"foodlife-environmentally-sustainable-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/2018\/01\/10\/foodlife-environmentally-sustainable-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Foodlife: Bringing the community together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;ARI&#8217;s mission is made clear from its first sentence:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The mission of the Asian Rural Institute is to build<\/em><br \/>\n<em> an environmentally healthy, just and peaceful world,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> in which each person can live to his or her fullest potential.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nThe ordering of this sentence is critical to the focus of ARI, that through and environmentally sustainable lifestyle, a just and peaceful world will unfold. \u00a0Centered around this idea, ARI coined the term <em>Foodlife, <\/em>one word, the combination of food and life for they are truly inseparable. \u00a0For lack of a better word, the staff of ARI are stewards of the land, serving and honoring the land and being humble with the gifts it provides. \u00a0Through their organic practices and low impact farming techniques, ARI seeks to provide a community that fosters close relations with one another and the land, and through these relations, a bountiful life can thrive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In my first two days of life on ARI\u2019s campus, several things have become clear. \u00a0Community; everything is done together. \u00a0Organic practices; their farm techniques are sourced from what is available locally. \u00a0Gratitude; recognizing the sacrifice the land makes so that we may live.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1128\/2018\/01\/IMG_4259-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ARI community members and St. Olaf students harvesting carrots side by side<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The most prevalent areas where I have seen these practices is in the morning and evening work shifts, an hour before breakfast and an hour before dinner, where every member of the community contributes towards the production of food, whether it be collecting carrots, preparing chicken feed, or polishing eggs. \u00a0When each member contributes to the work, community bonds strengthen and compassion for one another develops.<\/p>\n<p>My job so far has been preparing the carrot crop. \u00a0Harvesting carrots involved digging them out of the ground, cutting the stems, cleaning the outside, then sending them off to be juiced. \u00a0It is this field-to-meal type of farming that makes ARI a special.\u00a0 The wholistic sense of caring for the land because it<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-image-186 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1128\/2018\/01\/IMG_0195-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1128\/2018\/01\/IMG_0195-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1128\/2018\/01\/IMG_0195-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1128\/2018\/01\/IMG_0195-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1128\/2018\/01\/IMG_0195.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrots being arranged to dry before juicing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>sustains life is clear in ARI, and this care can be seen in the quality of their food and teachings.\u00a0 It is this love and care for the food and shared work that brings the community together in harmony.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food gives life, and life makes food, bound in a cycle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ari","category-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1128\/2018\/01\/IMG_4259-e1516676894949.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}