{"id":987,"date":"2012-08-14T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/sustainable-farm-field-trip\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T14:14:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T19:14:43","slug":"sustainable-farm-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/sustainable-farm-field-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Farm Field Trip!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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A couple weeks ago we took the students to an organic sustainable farm located several miles north of Legacy\u00a0Institute as part of\u00a0their\u00a0Ag class. \u00a0Here Jeff Rutherford (owner) explains how\u00a0Fair Earth Farm works with its many types of vegetables, fruit trees, and animals grown together in\u00a0tandem as in a natural\u00a0environment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Passion\u00a0fruit\u00a0growing on this trellis serves to purposes as edible shade.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Geese, ducks, and chickens are raised for food and help at the farm. \u00a0The ducks churn up and \u00a0fertilize\u00a0the wet rice paddies. \u00a0The\u00a0chickens compost (by scratching the ground) and fertilize the plants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Jeff showing us how he makes animal food from fermented taro, mulberry, cassava, banana trunk, with a mixture of molasses and salt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dragon fruit, taro, bread fruit, and pineapple in the front of his food forest.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Cassava, taro, and many of kinds of fruit trees planted together give \u00a0food for \u00a0the family and neighbors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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A canal fed by the local waterways channel through his 1-1\/2 acre farm to
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A delicious snack of freshly picked\u00a0bananas\u00a0during our visit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Rice paddies produce much of the food for Fair Earth Farm.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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This chicken\u00a0tractor is used to keep the\u00a0chickens\u00a0contained and to fertilize a specific area.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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A couple weeks ago we took the students to an organic sustainable farm located several miles north of Legacy Institute as part of their Ag class. Here Jeff Rutherford (owner) explains how Fair Earth Farm works with its many types of vegetables, fruit trees, and animals grown together in tandem as in a natural environment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-generalnews","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}