{"id":716,"date":"2011-04-02T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=716"},"modified":"2011-04-02T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T20:11:00","slug":"april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ken Plowing <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spring plowing has begun again. Ken and our Suffolk Punch draft horses got a\u00a0false\u00a0start in March before the last snow storm and freeze up. Now they are back at it and getting ready to plant oats as soon as possible. We will also be planting the early CSA garden as soon as we can work up our early garden area. \u00a0We did manage to plant one of our hoop houses this week to have greens for our first CSA pick-ups.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Unloading Oat Seed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grahame Servicing Mower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Andy Plowing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our full season apprentices have arrived. Andy, from New Zealand, has returned to fill our Senior Apprentice position. It has already been a great help to have a trained teamster to work with the draft horses. He has jumped right in doing some of the spring plowing. Lisa, from Maryland, and Grahame, from B.C., have come to become teamsters and hone their farming skills. We feel privileged to work with such fine young people as we pass on what we have learned over the past 30 plus years farming and look forward to working with them this season.<\/p>\n

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Arthur Ford Public School Planting Bean Seed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this week we had a grade two class from Arthur Ford Public School in London come to the farm for a field trip. One of the students is a CSA member and we agreed for the class to come. They enjoyed a wagon ride, egg collecting and bean planting. Normally we are too busy to host school field trips, but we squeezed it in early and were fortunate to have good weather. I am hopeful that it will stir a horticultural bent in some of the students…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring plowing has begun again. Ken and our Suffolk Punch draft horses got a\u00a0false\u00a0start in March before the last snow storm and freeze up. Now they are back at it and getting ready to plant oats as soon as possible. We will also be planting the early CSA garden as soon as we can work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,73,1],"tags":[100,56,58,57,59,65,69,66,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}