{"id":680,"date":"2012-04-24T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T01:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2012-04-24T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T01:26:02","slug":"grazing-with-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/grazing-with-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Grazing with the Stars&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-681\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Thistle Hill went Hollywood this afternoon; well not really.\u00a0 But we were taped for a video being prepared by Holistic Management International.\u00a0 As you probably know, about a year ago we were fortunate to be selected for an HMI pilot project in Rappahannock county (the river was low then and we snuck over from Fauquier county).\u00a0 Our cows had no problem &#8220;hitting their mark&#8221;, even when we switched the point for their grand entrance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-683\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo3-e1335315880934-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Cameraman Steven Schwartz of Madison specializes in videos about sustainable agriculture.\u00a0 All I had to do was brag about Thistle Hill.\u00a0 Steve&#8217;s only comment afterwards was that I had gone &#8220;a little long&#8221;.\u00a0 I reminded him that&#8217;s why had they invented cutting room floors.<\/p>\n<p>But he was very enthusiastic about our cattle.\u00a0 Like most visitors, he was impressed by their condition and vitality.\u00a0 Most people can&#8217;t believe cows can go through the winter with a nursing calf&#8230;never have a grain of corn&#8230;and emerge on the other side so fat and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>The video will have its premiere at an HMI reception May 30th at the Link, in Sperryville.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to know more about mob grazing and the HMI approach to farming, send us an email and we&#8217;ll see that you get invited.\u00a0 The food and drink will be good&#8230;and free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thistle Hill went Hollywood this afternoon; well not really.\u00a0 But we were taped for a video being prepared by Holistic Management International.\u00a0 As you probably know, about a year ago we were fortunate to be selected for an HMI pilot project in Rappahannock county (the river was low then and we snuck over from Fauquier county).\u00a0 Our cows had no problem &#8220;hitting their mark&#8221;, even when we switched the point for their grand entrance. Cameraman Steven Schwartz of Madison specializes in videos about sustainable agriculture.\u00a0 All I had to do was brag about Thistle Hill.\u00a0 Steve&#8217;s only comment afterwards was that I had gone &#8220;a little long&#8221;.\u00a0 I reminded him that&#8217;s why had they invented cutting room floors. But he was very enthusiastic about our cattle.\u00a0 Like most visitors, he was impressed by their condition and vitality.\u00a0 Most people can&#8217;t believe cows can go through the winter with a nursing calf&#8230;never have a grain of corn&#8230;and emerge on the other side so fat and healthy. The video will have its premiere at an HMI reception May 30th at the Link, in Sperryville.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to know more about mob grazing and the HMI approach to farming, send us an email and we&#8217;ll see that you get invited.\u00a0 The food and drink will be good&#8230;and free. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}