{"id":2664,"date":"2016-04-04T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2016-04-04T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:05:43","slug":"april-flurries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"April Flurries"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mosquito<\/a>
Mosquito in the greenhouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cats \u2013 Mosquito and Courgette \u2013 love greenhouse season because they get to lounge around on warm stones and pretend they\u2019re indoor cats. They like to place themselves conveniently at petting level\u2026but then they get kicked out for laying on top of the onions!<\/p>\n

What looked like an early spring had us all excited to work the garden and plant\u2026and now we\u2019re back to a week of winter. But there\u2019s still work to be done while it\u2019s cold \u2013 last week two of the season\u2019s three interns arrived \u2013 Bryan and Heidi. They had an introduction to working with the horses – although Bryan has quite a bit of experience, because last year he worked with draft horses at Meeting Place Farm, another organic vegetable & livestock farm near Lucknow. We have been planting in the greenhouse, and transplanted some pok choi into one of the hoophouses \u2013 protected with row cover too, but still \u2013 the poor pok choi!<\/p>\n

We still have some shares available for the 2016 season, and we have lots of eggs in the cooler – the hens think it’s spring, even if it’s snowing.<\/p>\n

\"Heidi<\/a>
Heidi driving during intern draft horse workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week we will be pruning the fruit trees and grapes, putting up a swing for Della (she picked out pink rope at the store with her dad), mulching the rhubarb \u2013 which is just starting to come up, and planting a bunch of seeds in the greenhouse. As well as stoking the fire to keep the little plants warm in this below freezing weather, and setting up the rest of the hoop houses for planting and transplanting.<\/p>\n

\"Garlic<\/a>
Garlic just beginning to grow….this was planted just a few weeks ago, into a hoophouse, under row cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cats \u2013 Mosquito and Courgette \u2013 love greenhouse season because they get to lounge around on warm stones and pretend they\u2019re indoor cats. They like to place themselves conveniently at petting level\u2026but then they get kicked out for laying on top of the onions! What looked like an early spring had us all excited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[63,64,102,100,56,91,83,58,57,59,101,65,69,66,67,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664"}],"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=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}