{"id":4559,"date":"2015-11-09T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2015-11-09T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T15:45:20","slug":"and-thats-the-way-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/and-thats-the-way-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And that’s the way it is….."},"content":{"rendered":"

….although no one is the Ag community talks about it.\u00a0 Health expert Dr. Joseph Mercola blows the whistle in the practice of dumping sewage sludge on pastures and crop lands.<\/p>\n

Several farms have down this in our area despite the serious concerns that have been raised about the practice.\u00a0 In our experience, the pastures look good the first year…but deteriorate rapidly.\u00a0 Wonder if the sludge kills the microbes in the soil?\u00a0 At least I’ve never noticed anyone doing a repeat treatment.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Mercola link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2015\/11\/01\/biosolids-fertilizer.aspx?e_cid=20151101Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20151101Z1&et_cid=DM89600&et_rid=1193536402<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….although no one is the Ag community talks about it.\u00a0 Health expert Dr. Joseph Mercola blows the whistle in the practice of dumping sewage sludge on pastures and crop lands. Several farms have down this in our area despite the serious concerns that have been raised about the practice.\u00a0 In our experience, the pastures look good the first year…but deteriorate rapidly.\u00a0 Wonder if the sludge kills the microbes in the soil?\u00a0 At least I’ve never noticed anyone doing a repeat treatment. Here’s the Mercola link: http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2015\/11\/01\/biosolids-fertilizer.aspx?e_cid=20151101Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20151101Z1&et_cid=DM89600&et_rid=1193536402<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9,91,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-health","category-mercola","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}