{"id":5249,"date":"2014-12-22T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T10:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T10:50:07","slug":"a-note-from-farmer-al-dec-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/a-note-from-farmer-al-dec-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"A note from farmer Al : Dec 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A NOTE FROM FARMER AL<\/h3>\r\nDear CSA Members,\r\n\r\nThe weather dominates everything on the farm. There is neither debate nor\u00a0complaining about it. The rain is good, needed, and vital. We are all thankful\u00a0for it.\r\n\r\nJust before last week\u2019s rain we were able to harvest our Tarocco blood oranges,\u00a0and Meyer lemons, but since then, field operations have come to a stand-still.......no pruning, no compost production, and no mowing. No field work\u00a0at all. This is the only downside of all this rain. It means no work for the men,\u00a0so they must make do with even less than their already meager earnings. But\u00a0not a word of complaint have I heard from them!\r\n\r\nAs for the compost, we fortunately turned all ten piles just before the heavy\u00a0rain last week. So it\u2019s in good shape, with every pile heating up nicely and\u00a0decomposing well.\r\n\r\nI just recently got a soil test report from Greg Young, our agronomist, and it\u00a0confirms that we are in fact achieving our goals with the compost. The 2001\u00a0Apricot Orchard (our Goldensweet variety) has risen in SOM (soil organic\u00a0matter) from about 4% three years ago to a very excellent 7.5% SOM. Our\u00a0winter garden tested at a phenomenal 14.5% SOM, which may be one reason\u00a0the greens we\u2019re harvesting there taste so delicious.\r\n\r\nToday I took a walk through the garden. Everything was vivid, radiating green\u00a0energy and beauty. It\u2019s something I love to do on these dark, damp, dreary\u00a0days of winter. Just spend some time being in the winter garden.\r\n\r\nHappy Holidays to All,\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Signature of Farmer Al\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/assets\/FarmerAlSig.gif\" width=\"250\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NOTE FROM FARMER AL Dear CSA Members, The weather dominates everything on the farm. There is neither debate nor\u00a0complaining about it. The rain is good, needed, and vital. We are all thankful\u00a0for it. Just before last week\u2019s rain we were able to harvest our Tarocco blood oranges,\u00a0and Meyer lemons, but since then, field operations [&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-5249","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-1mF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","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=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}