{"id":17929,"date":"2013-01-28T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T15:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cap4kids.org\/columbus\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:43:12","slug":"local-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/local-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Matters &#8211; Food Access &amp; Nutrition Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provides programs for food education, advocacy, and to improve food access for families in Columbus. They host free and low-cost community cooking classes for individuals and families to learn basic cooking skills, nutrition, and meal-planning while eating and enjoying demonstrations. They also offer classes at their learning gardens, youth summer programs, and in-school programs for pre-K through high school. <a href=\"https:\/\/local-matters.org\/veggie-van\/\">Veggie Van Pop-Ups<\/a> deliver affordable produce and meal kits at various locations in Columbus. The Veggie Van accepts SNAP\/EBT, WIC, and participates in the SNAP\/EBT Produce Perks program. Local Matters also runs <a href=\"https:\/\/local-matters.org\/columbus-food-rescue\/\">Columbus Food Rescue<\/a>, a program that accepts donations from individuals and small businesses to rescue food from landfills.<br \/>\n633 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43206<br \/>\n(614) 263-5662<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local-matters.org\/\">local-matters.org<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provides programs for food education, advocacy, and to improve food access for families in Columbus. They host free and low-cost community cooking classes for individuals and families to learn basic cooking skills, nutrition, and meal-planning while eating and enjoying demonstrations. They also offer classes at their learning gardens, youth summer programs, and in-school programs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,633,393,569,550,570,553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-school-camps","category-cooking-classes","category-food","category-fresh","category-healthy-lifestyle","category-hunger","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45193,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions\/45193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}