{"id":192940,"date":"2015-03-03T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=192940"},"modified":"2015-03-03T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:00:15","slug":"mhs-agriculture-class-tills-school-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mhs-agriculture-class-tills-school-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"MHS agriculture class tills school plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas High School \u201cBasic Agriculture\u201d class tilled the ground of their 40-by 60-foot plot inside the campus last week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_192942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192942\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"192942\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MHS-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MHS-pix-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Marianas High School \u201cBasic Agriculture\u201d class, led by farmer Isidoro Cabrera, rightmost, participates in a hands-on activity inside the campus. (Dennis B. Chan) \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-192942\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-192942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marianas High School \u201cBasic Agriculture\u201d class, led by farmer Isidoro Cabrera, rightmost, participates in a hands-on activity inside the campus.<br \/>(Dennis B. Chan)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The class, led by farmer Isidoro Cabrera, teaches students the \u201chow-to\u2019s\u201d of agriculture. Students will sell their harvest at the upcoming Agricultural Fair in May.<\/p>\n<p>They will be planting and harvesting radishes, Chinese cabbage, water spinach (kangkong), bell pepper, and eggplant, among many others, in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday afternoon\u2019s, Cabrera taught students about hydropnic agriculture and container gardening, and how to set up an irrigation system.<\/p>\n<p>The plot will use a nearby MHS water tank for irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>In three to five weeks, Cabrera said, plants should be about waist-high.<\/p>\n<p>A harvest is expected by end of March, he said, with some plants taking longer than others.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese cabbage and kangkong, for example, would take 30 to 35 days, and eggplant would take 60 to 70 from planting to harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera has plans for several field trips to the island\u2019s larger farms. One would be to Cabrera\u2019s hydroponic farm, another would be to the island\u2019s largest pineapple farm around Mt. Tapochau, or the Kagman commercial farm plot, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Students with good attendance earn a credit for the class and a certificate of completion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to know about agriculture,\u201d one student said when they were asked why they took the class. \u201cIt is important to grow crops\u2026I want to know [how to plant], if we don\u2019t have food,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas High School \u201cBasic Agriculture\u201d class tilled the ground of their 40-by 60-foot plot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":192942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2496,1482,2497,365],"class_list":["post-192940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agricultural-fair","tag-isidoro-cabrera","tag-last-friday","tag-mhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}