{"id":6802,"date":"2021-04-25T20:59:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T00:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2021-04-28T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:19:07","slug":"its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/its-official\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;Spring is here!<\/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\/2021\/04\/Thistlehill-Farm-Strip-Grazing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Thistlehill-Farm-Strip-Grazing-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle HIll Farm Strip Grazing\" class=\"wp-image-6803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Thistlehill-Farm-Strip-Grazing-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Thistlehill-Farm-Strip-Grazing-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Thistlehill-Farm-Strip-Grazing.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We know because the interior portable electric fencing has gone up and our cows have begun their strip grazing. &nbsp;From now through the first of the year the main herd will be allocated about an acre of pasture at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Thistle-HIll-Clover.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle Hill Farm Clover\" class=\"wp-image-6804\" width=\"235\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Thistle-HIll-Clover.jpg 554w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Thistle-HIll-Clover-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To tide them over the summer slump when grass nutrition value declines, we\u2019ve seeded in a heavy stand of clover&#8230;three types of clover&#8230;including a red and white variety we\u2019re experimenting with and a New Zealand white clover we\u2019re used before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far this year we\u2019ve been blessed with favorable growing conditions. &nbsp;The clover had plenty of time to establish before the grasses came on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Spring is here! We know because the interior portable electric fencing has gone up and our cows have begun their strip grazing. &nbsp;From now through the first of the year the main herd will be allocated about an acre of pasture at a time. To tide them over the summer slump when grass nutrition value declines, we\u2019ve seeded in a heavy stand of clover&#8230;three types of clover&#8230;including a red and white variety we\u2019re experimenting with and a New Zealand white clover we\u2019re used before. So far this year we\u2019ve been blessed with favorable growing conditions. &nbsp;The clover had plenty of time to establish before the grasses came on.&nbsp; David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,33,161,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cows","category-david","category-environment","category-grassfed","category-strip-grazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","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=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}