{"id":1897,"date":"2014-04-17T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:31:39","slug":"waiting-for-warm-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Warm Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1895\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_0055-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_0055-1.jpg\" alt=\"Composting Workshop  Photo Credit: Emily Hansen\/EFO\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_0055-1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_0055-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_0055-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composting Workshop<br \/>Photo Credit: Emily Hansen\/EFO<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWhat a backward spring! We are all ready to go, waiting for the weather to warm up to let us out on the land! Ken and the apprentices have drug out and serviced our equipment. Earlier in the week Ken was able to do a bit of &#8220;snow ploughing&#8221; with our Suffolk horses in the field, because the ground was thawed under the snow, but this morning the snow is gone and the ground is frozen again! I feel like we are horses chomping at the bit waiting to get on the land! However, we are getting a lot of odd jobs done and it is important to have things in place so that when the window does open we are ready to take off running. Hopefully, we will be able to do some more ploughing this afternoon. Four of our five hoop houses are up and planted we have one more ready for its new plastic and then we will plant it. Once things warm up the everything should come along quickly. <\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday we hosted an Ecological Farmers of Ontario composting workshop. Ken taught the course and we have some pictures courtesy of EFO staff member, Emily Hansen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"CSA Flowers Photo Credit:Chantelle Diachina \/ CSA Member\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-2-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CSA Flowers<br \/>Photo Credit:Chantelle Diachina \/ CSA Member<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CSA member Chantelle Diachina sent some pictures along that she took during the CSA season last year. It&#8217;s nice to see the beautiful flowers, herbs and aray of popcorn \u00a0in her pictures from the 2013 CSA season. It gives me confidence that warm weather will come and we will again have a bountiful harvest to share with our CSA members. We still have some shares available for the 2014 season.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1892\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Selection of Herbs from our Gardens  Photo Credit: Chantelle Diachina \/ CSA Member\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selection of Herbs from our Gardens<br \/>Photo Credit: Chantelle Diachina \/ CSA Member<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1893\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"OHF Popcorn  Photo Credit: Chantelle Diachina\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OHF Popcorn<br \/>Photo Credit: Chantelle Diachina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1891\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"CSA Fall Carrots and Golden Beets Photo Credit: Chantelle Diachina\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CSA Fall Carrots and Golden Beets<br \/>Photo Credit: Chantelle Diachina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a backward spring! We are all ready to go, waiting for the weather to warm up to let us out on the land! Ken and the apprentices have drug out and serviced our equipment. Earlier in the week Ken was able to do a bit of &#8220;snow ploughing&#8221; with our Suffolk horses in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[63,64,100,56,91,83,58,57,59,65,69,66,67,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}