{"id":116,"date":"2009-05-04T16:52:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/no-chianti-jokes-please\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T16:52:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:52:16","slug":"no-chianti-jokes-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/no-chianti-jokes-please\/","title":{"rendered":"No Chianti jokes, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the fava bean coverage, yesterday, I led a Village Harvest group that collected 430 lbs. This is definitely a new direction for Village Harvest. I joined the intrepid Mountain View crew, led by wonderful Karen, that meets every other Sunday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csacares.org\/\">Mountain View Community Services Agency<\/a>, and brings the harvest back there. I was supposed to have a bunch of Stanford students, but only three showed up. The regular MV crew, however, was out in force, and seven of them decided to take a break from citrus to help out.<\/p>\n<p>The favas were grown by a longtime Los Altos Hills resident<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3375\/3502153163_a9964aef83_m.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s planted 1\/3 acre of fava beans for the last 10 of his now 86 years, and donated them to the food bank. Last year, he and his wife spent 5 days harvesting them; health issues led him to call on Village Harvest this year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3656\/3502965374_42b039b392_m.jpg\"\n\nIt's not just charity that makes him plant these. Like other legumes, fava beans have nitrogen-fixing nodules on their roots, so planting them improves the soil. \n\nWe cleaned out the front section in pretty short order, \n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3627\/3502145969_edfa4b455b_m.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>then spent some time in the garage stripping the pods from the stalks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3624\/3502148399_719e58c202_m.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It takes a lot of plants to fill up a crate&#8217;s worth of pods.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3395\/3502962420_b96308263f_m.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the end, we got about 3\/4 of the plants harvested, which came to 430 lbs. The rest won&#8217;t wait; another team is going on on Mother&#8217;s Day to finish the job. I hope he calls back next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nContinuing the fava bean coverage, yesterday, I led a Village Harvest group that collected 430 lbs. This is definitely a&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/no-chianti-jokes-please\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;No Chianti jokes, please&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-village-harvest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}