{"id":6171,"date":"2020-04-26T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T00:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2020-04-27T10:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:02:45","slug":"happy-new-year-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/happy-new-year-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy new year&#8230;at last&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;the scene we wait all winter to see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/THGrazing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/THGrazing-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm Grazing\" class=\"wp-image-6172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/THGrazing-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/THGrazing-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/THGrazing-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/THGrazing-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/THGrazing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main Thistle Hill herd moving from the western to eastern pastures to begin strip grazing.&nbsp; Here temporary fencing already has been put in place.&nbsp; That will allocate roughly one acre paddocks per day.&nbsp; The confined space increases the trampling effect&#8230;.the cows pointed toes grinding in some of the grass&#8230;the result is organic matter and food for the soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the first pass over the eastern pasture&#8230;and if Mother Nature is good&#8230;there\u2019ll be one and maybe two more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s Church&#8230;our manager\/foreman&#8230;supervising the herd.&nbsp; Someone tell him he needs a haircut!&nbsp; (Inside family joke)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the scene we wait all winter to see! The main Thistle Hill herd moving from the western to eastern pastures to begin strip grazing.&nbsp; Here temporary fencing already has been put in place.&nbsp; That will allocate roughly one acre paddocks per day.&nbsp; The confined space increases the trampling effect&#8230;.the cows pointed toes grinding in some of the grass&#8230;the result is organic matter and food for the soil. This is the first pass over the eastern pasture&#8230;and if Mother Nature is good&#8230;there\u2019ll be one and maybe two more. That\u2019s Church&#8230;our manager\/foreman&#8230;supervising the herd.&nbsp; Someone tell him he needs a haircut!&nbsp; (Inside family joke) David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cows","category-david","category-strip-grazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171","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=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}