{"id":6849,"date":"2021-05-26T20:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2021-05-27T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T20:50:15","slug":"the-magic-of-grazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-magic-of-grazing\/","title":{"rendered":"The magic of grazing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Thistle-Hill-Farm-Grazing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Thistle-Hill-Farm-Grazing-1024x854.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle Hill Farm Grazing\" class=\"wp-image-6851\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Thistle-Hill-Farm-Grazing-1024x854.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Thistle-Hill-Farm-Grazing-300x250.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Thistle-Hill-Farm-Grazing-768x640.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Thistle-Hill-Farm-Grazing.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This photo by son-in-law Curt Humphreys captures the harmonious relationship among soil, grass, animals and sky that is an on-going process on the pastures of Thistle Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no losers in this kind of farming&#8230;the soil, the grass, the cows and the environment all prosper. &nbsp;And the farmer does, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy to lose sight of the Big Picture but every once in awhile we come across a kindred spirit, such as Suzanne Nelson Karreman in North Carolina, who puts it into words better than most of us can.\u00a0 She deals with the holistic nature of this kind of husbandry&#8230;yes, including the ultimate death involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reverencefarms.com\/ruminants-make-more-life-than-they-take\/\">https:\/\/reverencefarms.com\/ruminants-make-more-life-than-they-take\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo by son-in-law Curt Humphreys captures the harmonious relationship among soil, grass, animals and sky that is an on-going process on the pastures of Thistle Hill. There are no losers in this kind of farming&#8230;the soil, the grass, the cows and the environment all prosper. &nbsp;And the farmer does, too. It\u2019s easy to lose sight of the Big Picture but every once in awhile we come across a kindred spirit, such as Suzanne Nelson Karreman in North Carolina, who puts it into words better than most of us can.\u00a0 She deals with the holistic nature of this kind of husbandry&#8230;yes, including the ultimate death involved. https:\/\/reverencefarms.com\/ruminants-make-more-life-than-they-take\/ David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,19,13,33,170,161,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-cows","category-david","category-environment","category-grass","category-grassfed","category-pasture","category-soil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849","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=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6858,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}