{"id":4425,"date":"2015-05-18T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2015-05-18T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:30:24","slug":"farm-focus-meet-linnea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/farm-focus-meet-linnea\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus: Meet Linnea"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Linnea\"<\/a>\n\nIf you had the opportunity to spend a month pursuing any sort of job or\u00a0project that you wanted, what would you choose? For me, it was to work\u00a0on a farm, and that\u2019s exactly what I am doing.\n\nHi! My name is Linnea, and next month I am graduating from high\u00a0school. During the month of May, my school sends off the graduating\u00a0seniors to do a Senior Project, an internship or creative project of our\u00a0choosing. The only requirement is that we complete seventy hours of\u00a0unpaid, supervised work. Next year I\u2019ll be heading off to college to study\u00a0Environmental Engineering. But, in mulling over ideas for what project I\u00a0would set off on, I knew I wanted to do something different. Something I\u00a0was passionate about, but something that was completely new for me. So,\u00a0I drafted up an email and sent it off to Farmer Al.\n\nThree weeks later, I drove out to the farm for my first day as the new intern. I\u2019ve grown up eating Farmer Al\u2019s peaches and apricots and cherries,\u00a0and I\u2019ve known about Frog Hollow for a long time. But I wasn\u2019t really\u00a0sure what to expect to see or do at the farm. I\u2019ve never spent any time on\u00a0a farm before, and I was only going off of what I\u2019d seen in movies. And\u00a0yet, after just a few days of work, I truly feel like I have seen and learned\u00a0more\u2014and enjoyed it nonetheless\u2014than I would ever have been able to\u00a0in a classroom setting. I\u2019ve learned how powerful compost can be. I\u2019ve\u00a0learned how to properly transplant and grow cucumbers. I\u2019ve learned how\u00a0a busy farm-to-table caf\u00e9 functions during the lunch hour. I\u2019ve learned\u00a0how Farmer Al got into farming in the first place. And I\u2019ve really begun\u00a0to understand how much time and care it takes to manage a place like\u00a0Frog Hollow Farm.\n\nThree days into my internship, I\u2019ve already had a personal tour from Al,\u00a0a compost lesson with Cristoff, assisted Anna at the caf\u00e9, and spent the\u00a0morning weeding the new vegetable garden with Marlene and Kristen.\u00a0I know I\u2019ve seen only a glimpse of the production, and more, the diverse\u00a0and lively group of people that make it all happen. The beauty of the farm\u00a0and the kindness that I have been welcomed with amaze me. I feel so fortunate to have this opportunity, and I cannot wait to see what is to come.\n\nThere\u2019s something Al said to me as we drove through the orchards on\u00a0Tuesday that has stuck in my mind since. I think it really encompasses\u00a0one of the cornerstones of Frog Hollow Farm: to make a great product\u00a0and to bring people together. And, as I learn more about Al and the farm,\u00a0it\u2019s clear to me that it tells the story of how the Frog Hollow family came\u00a0to be. He said, \u201cFood is not just about survival. Food is about brotherhood.\u201d","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you had the opportunity to spend a month pursuing any sort of job or\u00a0project that you wanted, what would you choose? For me, it was to work\u00a0on a farm, and that\u2019s exactly what I am doing. Hi! My name is Linnea, and next month I am graduating from high\u00a0school. During the month of May, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-19n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}