{"id":328,"date":"2010-06-21T18:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/food\/?page_id=328"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:41:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:41:15","slug":"definition-of-terms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/what-is-bates-doing\/local-natural-organic\/definition-of-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>How does Bates define &#8220;local, natural, organic&#8221;?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christine Schwartz:<\/strong> We take pride in saying that we define local as the state of Maine. We think it&#8217;s a very powerful thing. In terms of natural and organic, natural is the way you grow something and it&#8217;s actually the same as organic growing, except that these products are not certified. Organics are certified products. There&#8217;s a process that you have to go through for your farm to be certified organic and it&#8217;s quite costly and time-consuming \u2014 it takes years to get it done.<\/p>\n<p><em> \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x182718.xml\">From an August 2008 conversation with Christine Schwartz, director of Bates Dining Services<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Bates define &#8220;local, natural, organic&#8221;? Christine Schwartz: We take pride&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":326,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-328","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions\/497"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}