{"id":4597,"date":"2015-10-05T19:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2016-04-06T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:25:37","slug":"farm-focus-pumpkins-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/farm-focus-pumpkins-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus: Pumpkins in August?"},"content":{"rendered":"\"20151001_094640\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nThere are no\u00a0guarantees in farming. As hard as\u00a0we may try to plan\u00a0and meet predeter-\r\nmined deadlines,\u00a0we will always be\u00a0at the whim of the\u00a0weather.\r\n\r\nWe were\u00a0reminded of this\u00a0concept many times\u00a0this year. Back in\u00a0early Spring, we\u00a0decided that we would grow decorative gourds and pumpkins for the CSA event.\r\n\r\nWe planted several rows of quirky and colorful gourds, and Jack O\u2019 Lanterns. We\u00a0knew the event was scheduled for Mid-October, we also knew the average days to\u00a0maturity for our pumpkins was 120 days, so we planted our transplants accordingly.\r\n\r\nLong story short, our extra hot and dry Spring and Summer sent our pumpkins into\r\n\r\nproduction early. We found our field spotted with mature, bright orange pumpkins by the end of August! Oh my, we thought, no one wants a Jack O Lantern in\u00a0August. Will these keep until October 18? We learned that while the average time\u00a0to mature a pumpkin is 120 days, they can produce in as little as 70 days. This made\u00a0me wonder, what are all of the other pumpkin farmers doing? We are lucky to have\u00a0a controlled environment cooler where we are carefully preserving our pumpkins\r\n\r\nso in turns out they will be just fine for the event, but many farms do not have this\u00a0luxury.\u00a0Our society operates in accordance with deadlines, but when the weather\u00a0has something else in mind, farmers have no choice but to cope. Often, a farmer\u2019s\u00a0livelihood depends on providing a certain product by a certain date. With our ever\u00a0changing climate, these expectations become increasingly difficult.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are no\u00a0guarantees in farming. As hard as\u00a0we may try to plan\u00a0and meet predeter- mined deadlines,\u00a0we will always be\u00a0at the whim of the\u00a0weather. We were\u00a0reminded of this\u00a0concept many times\u00a0this year. Back in\u00a0early Spring, we\u00a0decided that we would grow decorative gourds and pumpkins for the CSA event. We planted several rows of quirky and colorful gourds, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4598,"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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-focus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151001_094640.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-1c9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","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=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4859,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions\/4859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}