{"id":6966,"date":"2021-09-20T21:14:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2021-09-20T21:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:14:48","slug":"a-good-omen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-good-omen\/","title":{"rendered":"A good omen\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rainbow1-670x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A rainbow finds daughter Carolyn inspecting one of our newly-seeded pastures.\" class=\"wp-image-6967\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rainbow1-670x1024.jpg 670w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rainbow1-196x300.jpg 196w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rainbow1-768x1173.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rainbow1.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026as a rainbow finds daughter Carolyn inspecting one of our newly-seeded pastures.&nbsp; It\u2019s been 10 days since we seeded a cover crop of ryes, clovers, turnips, radishes and cow peas.<\/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\/09\/Rainbow2.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\/09\/Rainbow2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cow peas\" class=\"wp-image-6968\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rainbow2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rainbow2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rainbow2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the cow peas clearly winning the germination race but if you look closely you can see the ryes breaking the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We let the cows graze the planned seeding areas lower than usual.&nbsp; Otherwise we did no special prep work but depending on a no-till drill to set the seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our thanks to Glen Covingtin of the MarshAll Coop for consulting on our project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026as a rainbow finds daughter Carolyn inspecting one of our newly-seeded pastures.&nbsp; It\u2019s been 10 days since we seeded a cover crop of ryes, clovers, turnips, radishes and cow peas. It\u2019s the cow peas clearly winning the germination race but if you look closely you can see the ryes breaking the surface. We let the cows graze the planned seeding areas lower than usual.&nbsp; Otherwise we did no special prep work but depending on a no-till drill to set the seeds. Our thanks to Glen Covingtin of the MarshAll Coop for consulting on our project. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,170,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cows","category-david","category-grass","category-pasture","category-soil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","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=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6969,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}