{"id":286,"date":"2009-01-26T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-01-26T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T13:43:47","slug":"vera-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/vera-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vera blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I worked at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/\">Reader<\/a> it was often hard to find time to go to the grocery store, and in summer I envied my friends their leisurely trips to the weekday farmers&#8217; markets and their hefty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelicorganics.com\/\">Angelic Organics<\/a> boxes bursting with CSA bounty. Envied, that was, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videnovichfarms.com\/\">Vera Videnovich<\/a> stepped up to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>You might know my former coworker \u00a0best for her beautiful yarns, which she spins and dyes from the wool of a flock of adorable sheep at her farm in southwest Michigan and has been selling at craft fairs and markets around town for the last few years. But she doesn&#8217;t just grow sheep on the farm &#8212; for several years she also ran a Reader-only CSA, delivering bags and boxes of farm-fresh vegetables and herbs to the office to 20 -odd subscribers in the office. It was a godsend, despite her mystifying ability to raise bumper crops of kohlrabi.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, we&#8217;ve both unemployed. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got plenty of time to shop, and Vera has plenty of time to write. Her new blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalbeet.com\/?author=59\">the Farmers Almanac<\/a>, debuts today as a regular feature on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalbeet.com\/\">the Local Beet<\/a>. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I worked at the Reader it was often hard to find time to go to the grocery store, and in summer I envied my friends their leisurely trips to the weekday farmers&#8217; markets and their hefty Angelic Organics boxes bursting with CSA bounty. Envied, that was, until Vera Videnovich stepped up to the plate. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/vera-blogs\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[81,80],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-agriculture","tag-local-beet","tag-vera-videnovich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}