{"id":11,"date":"2009-11-20T09:52:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2012-12-06T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:18:15","slug":"gardening-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Gardening<\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019m lucky enough to share a field-size garden in Ontario\u2019s limestone-rich Grey County, which lets me experiment with all kinds of planting, pruning and cultivating of both native and imported species. My pesticide-free patch now embraces perennial and cutting gardens, vegetable and herb plots, a small orchard, a trio of struggling grapevines, a meadow, and growing groves of trees dug in as spindly seedlings. These days this bit of land bears fruit beyond apples \u2014 more snakes, bugs, butterflies, bees, birds and other wildlife are finding a home here, thanks to the native plantings, and I keep learning more about gardening as I go.<\/p>\n<p>To see Gardening story samples, click on\u00a0<a href=\"?page_id=37 #gardening\">pdf samples<\/a> or \u2014 for a quick look \u2014 click on the thumbnails, lower right.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13\" title=\"garden-pics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/garden-pics.jpg\" alt=\"garden-pics\" width=\"435\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/garden-pics.jpg 435w, http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/garden-pics-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardening I\u2019m lucky enough to share a field-size garden in Ontario\u2019s limestone-rich Grey County, which lets me experiment with all kinds of planting, pruning and cultivating of both native and imported species. My pesticide-free patch now embraces perennial and cutting gardens, vegetable and herb plots, a small orchard, a trio of struggling grapevines, a meadow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jocalvert.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}