{"id":139,"date":"2009-05-24T13:56:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T21:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/rock-of-ages\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:33:50","slug":"rock-of-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/rock-of-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock of ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the Veggielution work day, we picked up rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3595\/3561008870_c5db302cc9_m.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We found a ceramic nose.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3304\/3560194103_532660b0d8_m.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amie and Mark on Thursday signed an agreement with the city, so now we have what we&#8217;ve been calling &#8220;the acre,&#8221; <s>but is, evidently, somewhat less.<\/s> (See Amie&#8217;s comment!) The park staff disked the weeds, and we tried to remove at least the larger rocks today. San Jos\u00c3\u00a9 doesn&#8217;t experience frost heave, so we won&#8217;t be harvesting rocks forever after. Several of us want to build a dry stone wall with what we gathered today; it would be about six inches tall. There&#8217;s a lot to do to get even less than an acre ready for planting. Next will be fixing the existing irrigation lines (we found a leaking pipe today, which is mysterious, because this old system should not still be under pressure.) and preparing planting areas. The groundbreaking will be near the summer solstice; I hope we get the draft horses there to plow.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I also mixed up some potting soil from compost, worm castings and commercial potting mix, then I did some light weeding and harvested, yes, more fava beans. I&#8217;m going to have to go back and edit that post where I talked about their brief season. <\/p>\n<p>The original Veggielution plot is looking lush and active.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3584\/3560195463_c28d3e3580_m.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I managed to cook an impressive fraction of my CSA box yesterday, making greens-stuffed pasta, a salad with grilled fennel bulbs, fava bean spread and summer pudding with strawberries. The leftover pasta filling and fava spread went into lavosh bread for wraps today, which I brought to Veggielution. I like feeding people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nToday at the Veggielution work day, we picked up rocks. We found a ceramic nose. Amie and Mark on Thursday&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/rock-of-ages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Rock of ages&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veggielution","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}