{"id":5179,"date":"2015-05-19T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T09:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2016-04-08T09:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:41:19","slug":"a-note-from-farmer-al-may-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/a-note-from-farmer-al-may-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"A note from farmer Al : May 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column\">\r\n<h3>A NOTE FROM FARMER AL<\/h3>\r\nDear CSA Members,\r\n\r\nWe got more rain.....and very thankful for it, even though\r\nit was only about 1\u20444\u201d. That\u2019s just enough to wash all the dust off of the leaves and settle the dust on the roads. But that\u2019s not a small thing. Dust is one of our worst enemies, as dust on leaves is the habitat mites like. Those nasty little spiders will feed on the leaves, and eventually defoliate the tree if left unchecked. Rain is the best control for mites and it\u2019s free!\r\n\r\nThe rain also delivers a shot of nitrogen to the leaves and to the soil. We can always see a dark green flush of new growth after rain.\r\n\r\nBest of all is the water needed to alleviate the drought. We\u2019re being warned by the director of our Irrigation District of im- pending curtailments by the State of California Department of Water Resources.\r\n\r\nSo the recent rain was a blessing for us and we\u2019re very thank- ful for it.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, things are also picking up pace in the orchard. We\u2019ve still have plums and pears to thin and ripe fruit to pick, weeds to mow, compost to make and spread, and the list is endless! And we love it!\r\n\r\nSo enjoy the brief but delicious batch of Rainier cherries! Next week peaches are back!\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/assets\/FarmerAlSig.gif\" alt=\"Signature of Farmer Al\" width=\"250\" \/>\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NOTE FROM FARMER AL Dear CSA Members, We got more rain&#8230;..and very thankful for it, even though it was only about 1\u20444\u201d. That\u2019s just enough to wash all the dust off of the leaves and settle the dust on the roads. But that\u2019s not a small thing. Dust is one of our worst enemies, [&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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","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-1lx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","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=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}