{"id":4660,"date":"2012-10-09T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2012-10-09T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:48:29","slug":"calling-it-quits-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4660","title":{"rendered":"Calling it quits for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beans-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beans-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"beans-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4661\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Heirloom green beans for seed<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though I feel a bit guilty, I did not plant turnips and greens for a late garden this year. I was just too burned out from a summer of gardening and canning.<\/p>\n<p>Today I officially retired the garden. I picked the remaining green peppers. There was about a peck of them. I also picked the last of the green beans, which I had intentionally left on the vine to go to seed. They will be next year&#8217;s bean seeds. They are the family heirloom green beans that have been in my family for four or five generations. I&#8217;ve put them in the attic to dry before I shell them.<\/p>\n<p>The black walnuts were given to me by a friend. I don&#8217;t have a walnut tree &#8212; though I&#8217;m still looking for one. These days plenty of people have mature walnut trees, but 99.9 percent of the crop lies on the ground and goes to waste because people just aren&#8217;t hungry enough anymore to do all the work of hulling them and cracking them. I&#8217;m not sure how far I&#8217;ll get with that job either, but I at least want to have a go at it.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I only had access to an old, abandoned apple tree. My trees produced a small amount of fruit this year, but I&#8217;m still several years away from really having an apple crop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beans-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beans-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"beans-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4661\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A peck of peppers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beans-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beans-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"beans-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4661\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Black walnuts, still in the hulls<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heirloom green beans for seed Though I feel a bit guilty, I did not plant turnips and greens for a late garden this year. I was just too burned out from a summer of gardening and canning. Today I officially retired the garden. I picked the remaining green peppers. There was about a peck of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calling it quits for 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4660","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\/4660","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=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}