{"id":893,"date":"2011-07-20T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=893"},"modified":"2011-11-11T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T14:48:33","slug":"half-way-through-the-csa-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Half Way Through the CSA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6563.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-890\" title=\"Ryan with Wendell and Gwen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6563-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6563-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6563.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan with Wendell and Gwen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gwen had her Suffolk Punch foal ready to greet us on Tuesday morning! A beautiful stud colt with a white diamond on his forehead. Ryan will be leaving our farm this week and was hoping the foal would be born before he departed. \u00a0Ryan is off to start medical school and has enjoyed being part of our farm team getting in on the ground level of good health which begins with healthy food produced in a sustainable manor. \u00a0We wish him well and although we will miss him we are sure that he will be an\u00a0excellent\u00a0doctor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-889\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6584.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-889\" title=\"IMG_6584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6584-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6584-182x300.jpg 182w, http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6584.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy with Wendell and Gwen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The heat and dry weather have been a challenge and we are irrigating the main garden for the second time this week. \u00a0It is interesting how things balance out. Ken says that the average rain fall over the year remains fairly constant so that when we have a very wet spring we are likely to have a dry spell in the summer to balance it out&#8230;We hope it doesn&#8217;t last too long, but are glad that we have the\u00a0ability\u00a0to irrigate the garden.<\/p>\n<p>We have new Tamworth pigs to help jump start the composting of the horse manure. They also enjoy the extra produce on CSA pick up days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-891\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6529.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-891\" title=\"IMG_6529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6529-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6529-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6529.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamworth Composting Pigs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;\"><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-892\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6502.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-892\" title=\"IMG_6502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6502-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6502-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_6502.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting Combine Ready for Wheat Harvest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwen had her Suffolk Punch foal ready to greet us on Tuesday morning! A beautiful stud colt with a white diamond on his forehead. Ryan will be leaving our farm this week and was hoping the foal would be born before he departed. \u00a0Ryan is off to start medical school and has enjoyed being part [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,64,100,56,83,58,93,57,59,94,70,65,69,66,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}