{"id":6254,"date":"2020-06-06T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T18:03:33","slug":"our-namesake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/our-namesake\/","title":{"rendered":"Our namesake&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thistle.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thistle-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle\" class=\"wp-image-6255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thistle-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thistle-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thistle-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thistle-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Thistle.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and a stubborn little plant!&nbsp; The Canadian Thistle dominated our pastures 20 years ago&#8230;along with Rosa multiflora.&nbsp; It\u2019s taken a long time (and many grandchildren serving hard labor) to get both weeds to manageable proportions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We simply keep cutting them to ground level and eventually the plant gets the message and quits trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The multiflora was an earlier brainchild of someone who wanted to duplicate European hedgerows on this property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While neither is considered edible, we\u2019ve heard of people successfully training their cows to consume thistles.\u00a0 They simply spray the plants with fish oil,\u00a0 the cattle love it and eventually the fish oil isn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and a stubborn little plant!&nbsp; The Canadian Thistle dominated our pastures 20 years ago&#8230;along with Rosa multiflora.&nbsp; It\u2019s taken a long time (and many grandchildren serving hard labor) to get both weeds to manageable proportions. We simply keep cutting them to ground level and eventually the plant gets the message and quits trying. The multiflora was an earlier brainchild of someone who wanted to duplicate European hedgerows on this property. While neither is considered edible, we\u2019ve heard of people successfully training their cows to consume thistles.\u00a0 They simply spray the plants with fish oil,\u00a0 the cattle love it and eventually the fish oil isn\u2019t necessary. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,10,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david","category-environment","category-pasture","category-thistle-hill-farm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","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=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6256,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}