{"id":387,"date":"2010-03-16T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fc330a83-ac30-418a-87e5-73c66da443cc"},"modified":"2010-03-16T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:58:00","slug":"seeding-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Seeding Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the warm weather it is easier to think about farming again. I do have to admit thinking about warmer weather to come and all the good food to come from our fields has helped get me through a long cold winter. Now the actuality of my dream seems closer. A little over a week ago we still had nearly a foot of snow on the ground. Now it is all but gone. Over the weekend we set up one of our 2 portable greenhouses to begin onions. Yes our first seeds are in the the trays and it feels really good. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/seeding.jpg?a=22\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My soul mate did most of the work getting the potting mix the right conisstency and putting it in trays. This was one job Two really enjoyed helping with.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/greenhouse.jpg?a=14\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The girls enjoyed the greenhouse more. <\/p>\n<p>Starting seeds has always been a nervous time for me. Waiting and waiting till that first green pops up and then anxiously watching it until they are ready for the ground. <\/p>\n<p>Now that the actual farming tasks have begun rather than planning and paperwork the children are getting really excited. When I had to take my father-in-law to an appointment I asked my mother-in-law to watch the children. They had a great time playing with the leftover potting mix and pretending to plant seeds. Now Avril asks, &#8220;Can we go outside and work on our crop plants?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the warm weather it is easier to think about farming again. I do have to admit thinking about warmer weather to come and all the good food to come from our fields has helped get me through a long cold winter. Now the actuality of my dream seems closer. A little over a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}