{"id":5547,"date":"2019-02-02T21:36:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T02:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2019-02-02T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T02:36:13","slug":"the-joy-of-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-joy-of-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy of farming&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feeding.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feeding-932x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding the cows at Thistlehill Farm.\" class=\"wp-image-5550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feeding-932x1024.jpg 932w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feeding-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feeding-768x844.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feeding.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandson Church is taking a post graduate course in biology this winter&#8230;and a course on everything else here at the farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy enough rolling out the hay and makes for a nice picture but&#8230;but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  trick is to get the tractor started in zero temps and the bale  positioned with the plastic wrapping off so the clamps grab it at the mid-point so the hay rolls out in an even line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  cows clearly look forward to their breakfast-almost-in-bed and you can  see a calf or two moving in for a bite. What the young ones really like is sleeping in the hay instead of the frozen ground!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  hay that\u2019s left provides organic matter for the soil and also resends the pasture. Since we purchase our hay&#8230;and the cows convert it to let\u2019s call it \u201cnutrients\u201d&#8230;this is a fairly environmentally friendly  procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now next year if we can get Church to unroll it off his back&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandson Church is taking a post graduate course in biology this winter&#8230;and a course on everything else here at the farm. It\u2019s easy enough rolling out the hay and makes for a nice picture but&#8230;but&#8230; The trick is to get the tractor started in zero temps and the bale positioned with the plastic wrapping off so the clamps grab it at the mid-point so the hay rolls out in an even line. The cows clearly look forward to their breakfast-almost-in-bed and you can see a calf or two moving in for a bite. What the young ones really like is sleeping in the hay instead of the frozen ground! The hay that\u2019s left provides organic matter for the soil and also resends the pasture. Since we purchase our hay&#8230;and the cows convert it to let\u2019s call it \u201cnutrients\u201d&#8230;this is a fairly environmentally friendly procedure. Now next year if we can get Church to unroll it off his back&#8230;. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,19,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calves","category-cows","category-david","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","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=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}