{"id":619,"date":"2012-04-02T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2012-04-04T08:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T12:02:35","slug":"off-to-summer-camp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/off-to-summer-camp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to summer camp&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120401_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-620\" title=\"20120401_6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120401_6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.that&#8217;s what Wooz tells our yearling heifers reassuringly as we load them on the trailer for the short trip to a neighbor&#8217;s farm.\u00a0 Lindsay Sagstuen and John Dibble have generously shared their grass with us for several years now.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we think Ruby Red lawn mowers look a lot better than John Deere green.\u00a0 And now that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> neighbors, Don and Sue Ferro, have also granted us &#8220;grazing rights&#8221;\u00a0 we can\u00a0add a few more heifers to this &#8220;loan-a-cow program&#8221; and get more effective use of the grass.<\/p>\n<p>A side benefit we have found is that both couples\u00a0love the animals so much that not only do they thrive but, with all the attention and all the guests, these heifers are always the most socialized cows in our herd.\u00a0 They return to our farm in the fall for breeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.that&#8217;s what Wooz tells our yearling heifers reassuringly as we load them on the trailer for the short trip to a neighbor&#8217;s farm.\u00a0 Lindsay Sagstuen and John Dibble have generously shared their grass with us for several years now. Of course, we think Ruby Red lawn mowers look a lot better than John Deere green.\u00a0 And now that their neighbors, Don and Sue Ferro, have also granted us &#8220;grazing rights&#8221;\u00a0 we can\u00a0add a few more heifers to this &#8220;loan-a-cow program&#8221; and get more effective use of the grass. A side benefit we have found is that both couples\u00a0love the animals so much that not only do they thrive but, with all the attention and all the guests, these heifers are always the most socialized cows in our herd.\u00a0 They return to our farm in the fall for breeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}