{"id":180,"date":"2018-09-21T19:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2018-11-18T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:47:46","slug":"caretakerprogram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/caretakerprogram\/","title":{"rendered":"Caretaker Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2018\/11\/20180816_085428.jpg\" alt=\"20180816_085428\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1440\" title=\"20180816_085428\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\tThe Heart of BLI:  The Caretaker Program<br \/>\n\t<\/h3>\n<h4>The Caretaker program is an intensive two-year residential program where students, called Caretakers, train in farming, agro-business, and personal formation. While the three branches of BLI, Mary&#8217;s Farm, Martha&#8217;s Market, and Lazarus&#8217; Forest, are open to visitors, they are also the Caretaker&#8217;s training arenas.<\/h4>\n<h4>Caretakers learn by doing. With just a few hours a week in the classroom, the bulk of training happens in the field. First year\u2019s work in Mary\u2019s Farm, our demonstration farm, while second year\u2019s design, create, and tend their own individual farming plots. This hands on approach leads to questions,\u00a0problem solving, and discoveries that couldn\u2019t happen in the classroom alone.<\/h4>\n<h4>Martha\u2019s Market is also run by Caretakers. The Market is a platform for Caretakers to learn business skills including putting the earnings from their produce towards their tuition.<\/h4>\n<h4>What happens after the Caretakers graduate is what makes BLI\u2019s programing transformative. As a prerequisite to joining the program, each Caretaker commits to training 4 apprentices in the next 2 years, and freely sharing their knowledge with everyone. In this way the Caretakers become an ever expanding network of thoughtful, creative farmers.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Caretakers formed at BLI become Change Makers in Uganda.<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heart of BLI: The Caretaker Program The Caretaker program is an intensive two-year residential program where students, called Caretakers, train in farming, agro-business, and personal formation. While the three branches of BLI, Mary&#8217;s Farm, Martha&#8217;s Market, and Lazarus&#8217; Forest, are open to visitors, they are also the Caretaker&#8217;s training arenas. Caretakers learn by doing.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/bethanylandinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}