{"id":605,"date":"2010-09-24T00:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T04:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-09-24T00:46:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T04:46:16","slug":"international-plowing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"International Plowing Match"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buttons and Gwen at IPM in St. Thomas, Ontario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ken has spent the week at the International Plowing match in St. Thomas. \u00a0It is taking place only about 5 km from the farm and seemed like too good an opportunity to pass up. \u00a0He has been plowing with Buttons and Gwen. \u00a0Elwyn McGuire has also been plowing at the match with our older team Jasmin and Gena. \u00a0Our apprentices have been a great help with the horses as well. \u00a0Friday is the last day of the the four day plowing competition and then it will be back to the real farm work for everyone. It has been a lot of fun and a good chance to show everyone our calm, steady Suffolk horses. \u00a0Suffolks are a rare breed and it is unusual for them to be out in public. \u00a0We have been happy to see some of our CSA members who have stopped by to visit at the match!<\/p>\n

Our squash harvest has provided a bounty of beautiful squash to share with our members. The mountain of squash is gradually going down in our front yard. \u00a0It is good that they store well. \u00a0An excellent website that explains about the different varieties of squash has hints on cooking and lincs to recipes is: whatscookingamerica.net\/squash.htm <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>We expect to be digging the remainder of our potato crop next week and will have a bounty to divide up for our final weeks of the CSA. \u00a0We are really pleased with our first sweet potato crop. \u00a0We gave our first sweet potatoes on Tuesday and have quite a few more. \u00a0The fresh dug potatoes are not as sweet as the ones that have been cured. We are attempting to cure some in our greenhouses to give in the final week. We are new to growing sweet potatoes and are learning as we go.<\/p>\n

Orchard Hill Farm CSA Fall Potluck <\/strong>will be held October 3rd from 2-4 pm<\/p>\n

Bring: food to share, plates, cutlery, cups and lawn chairs.<\/p>\n

Last pick-up dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 5<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ken has spent the week at the International Plowing match in St. Thomas. \u00a0It is taking place only about 5 km from the farm and seemed like too good an opportunity to pass up. \u00a0He has been plowing with Buttons and Gwen. \u00a0Elwyn McGuire has also been plowing at the match with our older team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[56,58,57,59,70,65,69,66,60,67,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}