{"id":53837,"date":"2016-08-24T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=53837"},"modified":"2016-08-23T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:40:53","slug":"the-pepper-queen-of-bronx-green-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/08\/learning\/the-pepper-queen-of-bronx-green-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pepper Queen of Bronx Green-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zakiya Tyehimba was an intern with Bronx Green-Up, the community gardening outreach program of The New York Botanical Garden.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Zakiya\"<\/a>This summer I worked as a SYEP (Summer Youth Employment Program) intern for Bronx Green-Up<\/a>. I’ve been working closely with both Bronx Green-Up and NYC Compost Project<\/a> hosted by The New York Botanical Garden for the last six weeks. I’m sad to know my time with them is over.<\/p>\n

I have had so many exciting, eye-opening experiences while working with Bronx Green-Up. One of my most memorable experiences is taking part in the Pepper Project. Bronx Green-Up collaborates with Small Axe Peppers and community gardens throughout the Bronx to create Bronx Hot Sauce<\/a>, and I was put in charge of keeping track of how many pounds of peppers we received. Because of this task, I was crowned the \u201cPepper Queen.\u201d On my last day, I was even awarded a pepper crown!
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\nWorking with Bronx Green-Up is one of those amazing opportunities that you never forget. Not only did I receive gardening knowledge, I also received basic job skills and the knowledge of how to navigate the world after college. I’m really going to miss everyone and I have promised myself I’ll be back to volunteer with this amazing team as soon as possible!<\/p>\n\"Zakiya\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an intern with Bronx Green-Up, Zakiya’s experiences ranged from learning gardening knowledge and job skills to becoming the Pepper Queen of the Bronx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119146,"featured_media":53840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[52],"tags":[345,5065,1228,4456,5066,5064],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Zakiya-pepper.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-e0l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53837"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53860,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53837\/revisions\/53860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}