{"id":5081,"date":"2015-12-14T12:52:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2016-04-07T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:54:12","slug":"a-note-from-farmer-will-december-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/a-note-from-farmer-will-december-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"A note from farmer will: December 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"Dear CSA Members,\r\n\r\nThe big news this week is the rain. It\u2019s really good for our trees, soil, and winter veggies. We\u2019ve gotten maybe a 1\/4 inch total rainfall\u00a0these last two days, but more importantly, California is getting snow in\u00a0the Sierras. In the big picture, this is very important for Frog Hollow\u00a0Farm for the 2016 irrigation\/growing season.\r\n\r\nThat is because we get our summer irrigation water from Byron- Bethany Irrigation District (BBID), which gets it water from the Sierra\u00a0run-off water as it flows to the Clifton Fore bay here in the delta.\u00a0BBID is part of the vast network of dams, reservoirs, canals, pipelines,\u00a0pumps, and ditches which make up the California Agricultural water\u00a0system. It is one of the largest water systems in the world, and is the\u00a0lifeblood not only of California Agriculture but of industry, municipal,\u00a0recreational, and residential uses as well.\r\n\r\nBBID is uniquely positioned, in a legal way. We BBID farmers, have so-called \u201cpre 1914\u201d rights to water from this statewide system,\u00a0which historically have protected us from curtailments issued by the\u00a0DWR (Department of Water Resources) during all previous droughts.\r\n\r\nHowever, this last season, the state issued its higher authority and\u00a0challenged those pre- 1914 riparian rights by curtailing our water\u00a0anyway. BBID is now in court to overthrow this arbitrary, illegal action\u00a0by the DWR. The decision is to be determined by the court, who knows\u00a0when. Certainly, the best solution to this grave threat to our food supply\u00a0is rain, enough to fill up all the hundreds of reservoirs and snow to cover\u00a0the mountains.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ve done a lot of work here at Frog Hollow Farm to prepare for rain.\u00a0Last year in December, we did get a storm which dumped a significant\u00a0amount at once, so much that it flooded four acres of apple and pear\r\n\r\ntrees next to Highway 4, and also our farm worker housing area, also\u00a0next to the Highway.\u00a0So this year our crews have spent lots of time clearing all the drainages\u00a0along Highway 4 of our own property and of our neighbors who own\u00a0land in our drainage corridor.\r\n\r\nThis year, we\u2019re ready and we want those torrential winter and spring rains; bring it on El Nino!\r\n\r\nEagerly,\r\n\r\n\"Signature","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear CSA Members, The big news this week is the rain. It\u2019s really good for our trees, soil, and winter veggies. We\u2019ve gotten maybe a 1\/4 inch total rainfall\u00a0these last two days, but more importantly, California is getting snow in\u00a0the Sierras. In the big picture, this is very important for Frog Hollow\u00a0Farm for the 2016 […]<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-from-farmer-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-1jX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","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=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}