{"id":255,"date":"2017-04-12T20:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T20:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=255"},"modified":"2017-12-08T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T19:30:38","slug":"humber-students-celebrate-nature-come-together-for-urban-sugar-shack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Humber students celebrate nature, come together for Urban Sugar Shack"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>hat better way to celebrate Canada 150 than by tasting fresh maple syrup?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what the organizers of Urban Sugar Shack thought when they were coming up with the event. What started as an idea for a tree planting workshop \u201csnowballed into this big event,\u201d said Humber student and event organizer Emily Long. \u201cWe wanted to celebrate Canada\u2019s diversity, everything that Canada is and everything that we\u2019re so proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Urban Sugar Shack was a final project assembled by a group of 10 event management students at Humber College.<\/p>\n<p>Student volunteer Emek Hancer said that proceeds from ticket sales will help fund nature camp activities for children living at the Ernestine\u2019s Women\u2019s Shelter. Money raised from the event will also be given back to Humber students through the Humber scholarship fund.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the Urban Sugar Shack were treated to a guided walk through the Humber arboretum. Several activities were scattered throughout the trek, like shelter building and chickadee feeding \u2013 a crowd favourite.<\/p>\n<p>Sue and Gerard Hatchette came all the way from London to attend the event. \u201cI love just being outside and exploring, I\u2019ve never been in this area \u2026 I didn\u2019t even know it existed. So it was pretty cool to walk around and see the area,\u201d said Sue.<\/p>\n<p>They also got a chance to taste pure maple sap, which an educator from the centre for urban ecology said is a rare opportunity, and to pepper the side of \u2018Mt. Arb\u2019 with seed bombs \u2013 little brown balls of dirt, clay and seeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Timbits tasted a little like dirt,\u201d joked Gerard.<\/p>\n<p>The event came to a close with fresh pancakes served with syrup from the arboretum. \u201cIt was a good time, a good variety of events and it was a good job. It was very professionally done. For a bunch of students, it was really good,\u201d said Paul Sarjeant, who came with his niece.<\/p>\n<p>Hancer said that, as an international student, she wanted to volunteer for this event to learn more about Canadian culture. \u201cSeeing how they make the sap and how they make the syrup \u2026 it\u2019s actually really fun for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so important to really focus on being proud of where you\u2019re from and there\u2019s so many great things about Canada and we really wanted to show that through this event,\u201d said Long as things wrapped up. \u201cWe were really, really happy with the amount of turnout. We hope everyone had fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to celebrate Canada 150 than by tasting fresh maple syrup?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[47],"tags":[55,56,57,58,59,60,61],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}