{"id":5629,"date":"2013-10-31T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2013-10-31T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:21:10","slug":"halloween-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5629","title":{"rendered":"Halloween work day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"789\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-1.jpg\" alt=\"compost-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-1-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken has done a lot of traveling and has had a number of public appearances to prepare for, so there hasn&#8217;t been a lot of time for farm work this fall. But this week he has started catching up. First step: clean the litter out of the garden. Second step: throw on some compost. Next: Till the garden, plant winter rye, and wait for rain. Not only is a crop of winter rye good for the garden, it also provides winter greens for the chickens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"793\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-1a.jpg\" alt=\"compost-1a\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-1a.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-1a-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"888\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-2.jpg\" alt=\"compost-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-2-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-3.jpg\" alt=\"compost-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-3-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ken lets the chickens out to roam when he&#8217;s outside working and can keep an eye on them. The abbey has six chickens at present.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"864\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-4.jpg\" alt=\"compost-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-4-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A late, shabby rosebud<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"796\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-5.jpg\" alt=\"compost-5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/compost-5-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Late bees working a camellia blossom<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken has done a lot of traveling and has had a number of public appearances to prepare for, so there hasn&#8217;t been a lot of time for farm work this fall. But this week he has started catching up. First step: clean the litter out of the garden. Second step: throw on some compost. Next: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Halloween work day&#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":[9,15,18],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relocalization","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land","tag-ken-ilgunas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","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=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}