{"id":5057,"date":"2016-02-01T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2016-04-07T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:37:39","slug":"a-note-from-farmer-willfebruary-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/a-note-from-farmer-willfebruary-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"A note from farmer will:February  1st"},"content":{"rendered":"Hello CSA Members!\r\n\r\nWe are almost done with our vegetable hoop house! The PVC frame has been put together and we are in the process of constructing the wooden end walls (the front and back of the greenhouse). Putting up the PVC took longer than anticipated. After we had the wooden 2x6\u201d ground foundation set in place and leveled out, we drove 2\u201d PVC pipe into the ground at 3 foot intervals just on the inside of the foundation. These sleeves became the base of our hoops, which are made out of 1.25\u201d PVC pipe. Driving all this pipe into the ground, while being careful not to break it, took a lot longer than expected. When the soil is as wet as it is, the further the pipes went into the ground, the harder the job became \u2013 like cutting a wedge of cheese with a butcher knife. But with a little brute force and some off-the-cuff thinking, the job was completed.\r\n\r\nThe next step was assembling the 1.25\u201d PVC pipe into hoops. This was fairly easy, but the devil is in the details \u2013 we had to secure these hoops to the foundation. This seemingly easy concept to grasp proved to be a full day\u2019s endeavor. We had to keep the lengths of the hoops equal to each other, while keeping the sleeves level to the foundation and securing the hoops to this foundation through the sleeves\u2026 all the while the hoops were being put under pressure, pulling away from where they were supposed to be\u2026 and well jeez, that\u2019s a lot to juggle at the same time.\r\n\r\nSo all that was pretty tough, but here we are. We made it and the greenhouse stands. For now at least. No, I\u2019m just kidding, it\u2019s very sturdy and I\u2019m super excited to put the plastic film over it so we can put little baby tomato seedlings in there. Yay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOrganically yours,\r\n\r\nWill\r\n\r\nAssistant Farmer at Frog Hollow Farm","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello CSA Members! We are almost done with our vegetable hoop house! The PVC frame has been put together and we are in the process of constructing the wooden end walls (the front and back of the greenhouse). Putting up the PVC took longer than anticipated. After we had the wooden 2&#215;6\u201d ground foundation set [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-1jz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057","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=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}