{"id":1975,"date":"2010-06-28T16:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T21:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2010-06-28T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T21:52:57","slug":"levering-orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"Levering Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/levering-orchard-1.JPG' title='levering-orchard-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/levering-orchard-1.JPG' alt='levering-orchard-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ken climbs a cherry tree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today we drove to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leveringorchard.com\/\">Levering Orchard<\/a> in Ararat, Virginia, hoping to pick some cherries. Unfortunately we were a week or so too late for this year&#8217;s cherry crop, but we did pick some peaches and some Lodi apples.<\/p>\n<p>Levering Orchard has been operated by the Levering family for three generations. Frank Levering now runs the orchard. Frank has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&#038;sort=relevancerank&#038;search-alias=books&#038;field-author=Frank%20Levering\">several books<\/a> on rural living. He and his wife, Wanda Urbanska, produced the PBS television series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplelivingtv.net\/tvclips\/72\/tv-clips\/\">Simple Living<\/a>. I first met Frank more than 30 years ago, so we had a chance today to talk about old times and old friends.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably make a pie from some of the apples. Most of the peaches probably will go into peach smoothies.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/levering-orchard-2.JPG' title='levering-orchard-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/levering-orchard-2.JPG' alt='levering-orchard-2.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ken Ilgunas and Frank Levering<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/levering-orchard-3.JPG' title='levering-orchard-3.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/levering-orchard-3.JPG' alt='levering-orchard-3.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Levering peaches<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken climbs a cherry tree. Today we drove to Levering Orchard in Ararat, Virginia, hoping to pick some cherries. Unfortunately we were a week or so too late for this year&#8217;s cherry crop, but we did pick some peaches and some Lodi apples. Levering Orchard has been operated by the Levering family for three generations. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Levering Orchard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}