  {"id":25131,"date":"2021-12-08T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=25131"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:18:51","slug":"schattman-involved-in-study-showing-increase-in-homegrown-food-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2021\/12\/08\/schattman-involved-in-study-showing-increase-in-homegrown-food-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Schattman involved in study showing increase in homegrown food during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"23525\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23525\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Schattman headshot\" width=\"170\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1024x904.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1536x1355.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-2048x1807.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-105x93.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-317x280.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-423x373.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-634x559.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-846x747.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-951x839.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1268x1119.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Schattman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As reported recently by 91¸£Àû News, new research from the University of Maine and University of Vermont discovered that residents in their respective states grew, fished, raised, foraged or hunted more of their own food during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should think carefully about how supporting our local food systems can help alleviate the negative consequences of disruptive national events like the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/rachel-schattman\/\">Rachel Schattman<\/a>, a 91¸£Àû assistant professor of sustainable agriculture who co-authored the policy brief detailing study findings. Schattman is a Mitchell Center faculty fellow and gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JMxKWQTAsLE\">Sustainability Talk<\/a> in fall 2020 on food insecurity and the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/blog\/2021\/11\/19\/umaine-uvm-researchers-find-increase-in-homegrown-food-during-pandemic-in-maine-vermont\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">91¸£Àû News<\/a><strong>. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vermontbiz.com\/news\/2021\/november\/25\/home-grown-food-rise-families-deal-pandemic-food-insecurity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vermont Business Magazine<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>the <a href=\"https:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2021\/11\/19\/bdn-maine\/umaine-uvm-researchers-find-increase-in-homegrown-food-during-pandemic-in-maine-vermont\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bangor Daily News<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2021\/11\/24\/the-wrap-christmas-tree-shopping-just-got-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portland Press Herald<\/a> also highlighted the research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported recently by 91¸£Àû News, new research from the University of Maine and University of Vermont discovered that residents in their respective states grew, fished, raised, foraged or hunted more of their own food during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cWe should think carefully about how supporting our local food systems can help alleviate the negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25138,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25131\/revisions\/25138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}