{"id":7052,"date":"2022-01-31T03:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2022-01-31T03:52:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:52:05","slug":"winter-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/winter-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter feeding\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026takes several forms at Thistle Hill.&nbsp; This is my personal favorite because we\u2019re feeding the soil as well.<\/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\/2022\/01\/Winterfeed.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Winterfeed-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Winter feeding...\" class=\"wp-image-7053\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Winterfeed-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Winterfeed-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Winterfeed-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Winterfeed.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Photo by Church Matthews<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The cows follow behind the tractor as it unrolls the bale of hay.&nbsp; They\u2019ll eat up to 60%..the rest becomes organic matter enriching the soil\u2026feeding the microbes and, in turn, the plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh and tonight the new calves will sleep on it\u2026staying warm off the cold ground.\u00a0 And yes New England, that\u2019s what we call winter in Virginia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026takes several forms at Thistle Hill.&nbsp; This is my personal favorite because we\u2019re feeding the soil as well. The cows follow behind the tractor as it unrolls the bale of hay.&nbsp; They\u2019ll eat up to 60%..the rest becomes organic matter enriching the soil\u2026feeding the microbes and, in turn, the plants. Oh and tonight the new calves will sleep on it\u2026staying warm off the cold ground.\u00a0 And yes New England, that\u2019s what we call winter in Virginia! David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,33,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cows","category-david","category-environment","category-pasture","category-soil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","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=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}