{"id":1162,"date":"2006-04-11T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2006-04-11T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T03:42:00","slug":"farm-fresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Farm fresh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more Lots of stories under the cut, for brevity-->Just signed up for a summer&#8217;s worth of produce from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmfreshri.org\/find\/farm.php?farm=764\">Scratch Farm<\/a> in RI.  I paid $500 to sign up for about a half bushel of veggies, once a week, from June 15 &#8211; October 26.  I also have to work for at least four hours at either the farm itself, or at the distribution site.  Along the way, I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmfreshri.org\">Farm Fresh, RI<\/a>, which lists a whole bunch of local farms that produce, well, farm stuff.  I think that this rocks.  <\/p>\n<p>Driving down to Princeton, NJ today to do some work for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bms.com\">Big Pharma<\/a>.  Should be fun.  I like the team down there.  On the other hand, this is my first time installing the new version of our software &#8230; and it&#8217;s on a monstrous SMP machine running some hairy version of Linux, so I&#8217;ll need to build everything from scratch.  Yay, work!<\/p>\n<p>After finishing up that gig on Friday, I plan to head to Baltimore to see my brother&#8217;s collegiate environment.  Back here on Sunday for a much needed weeken &#8230; oop &#8230; guess not.  This will make four consecutive weekends away.  I grow weary.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov\/id\/framlst\/photo_htm\/Images\/h4120p5.jpg\" align=right ismap>This morning we saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov\/id\/framlst\/i4120id.html\">Northern Flicker<\/a> (Colaptes auratus) munching from the suet feeder.  That&#8217;s one large bird for my little suet feeder.  She was, like, twice the size of the little woodpeckers that usually grace us with their presence.  I wish I had time to build a nest box this morning.  <\/p>\n<p>My bell peppers have <em>finally<\/em> freakin&#8217; germinated &#8230; and the outdoor onions, peas, kale, and radishes are up and in need of thinning.  In perhaps more exciting news, I have planted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernbrewer.com\/rhizomes.html\">hop rhyzomes<\/a> along the back fence.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to make some truly home grown ale this fall!  More likely, the squirrels will get a hoppy, bitter snack this morning.  <\/p>\n<p>Whatever.  Gotta go pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1162\">Farm fresh!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}