{"id":839,"date":"2012-06-04T06:32:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T10:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2012-06-04T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T11:13:38","slug":"whistle-while-you-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/whistle-while-you-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistle while you work…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You wouldn’t think that, with a name like Thistle Hill<\/em>, we’d be making war on thistles.\u00a0 But this is grandson, Church, on summer break, practicing his back-swing for tennis.\u00a0 That’s what we tell him anyway.<\/p>\n

Actually thistles, which blanketed the farm 10 years ago, have virtually disappeared, particularly in the pastures where we practice mob grazing.\u00a0 This is the field where we keep young bulls and it is set-stocked.\u00a0 And, of course, we don’t use herbicides for weed control.\u00a0 Bad for the tennis game.<\/p>\n

It’s great having Church here for the summer.\u00a0 He’s all\u00a0“growed” and can out-work me.\u00a0 (He carries four mineral bags at a time; I lift one, and look around for Wooz to help.)\u00a0 And we love knowing that he wants to be here on the farm working.<\/p>\n

Like his grandma, and his uncle, he also has a special knack with animals so our Devon will be in good hands with the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You wouldn’t think that, with a name like Thistle Hill, we’d be making war on thistles.\u00a0 But this is grandson, Church, on summer break, practicing his back-swing for tennis.\u00a0 That’s what we tell him anyway. Actually thistles, which blanketed the farm 10 years ago, have virtually disappeared, particularly in the pastures where we practice mob grazing.\u00a0 This is the field where we keep young bulls and it is set-stocked.\u00a0 And, of course, we don’t use herbicides for weed control.\u00a0 Bad for the tennis game. It’s great having Church here for the summer.\u00a0 He’s all\u00a0“growed” and can out-work me.\u00a0 (He carries four mineral bags at a time; I lift one, and look around for Wooz to help.)\u00a0 And we love knowing that he wants to be here on the farm working. Like his grandma, and his uncle, he also has a special knack with animals so our Devon will be in good hands with the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-pasture","category-weeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}