{"id":1943,"date":"2013-04-24T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T00:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2013-04-25T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T02:38:38","slug":"farm-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/farm-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130419-032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1925\" alt=\"20130419 032\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130419-032-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130419-032-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130419-032.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Writer Jon Katz blogs about his Bedlam Farm and today, he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bedlamfarm.com\/2013\/04\/23\/afternoon-chores-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">listed his farm chores<\/a>\u00a0and commented on how they frame all his days.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;These chores are dynamic and inflexible. They cannot be put off, they embody commitment and focus. Dependent animals are always a responsibility that does not end.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>The daily tasks of feeding and caring for dependents shape everyone&#8217;s days, but on a farm you face a wider variety of needs, and depending on the size of the farm and the number of mouths to feed, the chores can take a bit longer. \u00a0 They are additional to the usual family feeding commitments and a bit more restrictive as they are location specific, you can still feed your family if you go away on holiday &#8211; goats, sheep, cows and horses&#8230;.not so much.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our first routine \u00a0starts at 6.30.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Let Dog Out<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed Horses<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Irrigate Summer Paddock<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed\/Milk Goats<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Check Goats Water<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Walk Dog &#8211; picking woody weeds on the way<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed Dog<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Rugs Off\/Fly veils on horses<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Let Horses Out<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Pick up Manure<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Water Garden<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed People<\/em><\/div>\n<div>The second round starts at 10am<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Walk Dog<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed Young Guinea fowl<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Chickens out &#8211; clean Coop<\/em><\/div>\n<div>The afternoon routine starts around 4.50pm<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Feed Chickens and lock them in<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed Guineas<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Check Mouse traps<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed Horses<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Check Horse Water<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Rugs On\/Flyveils off<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed Goats<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Tend Garden<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feed People<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Jon Katz blogs about his Bedlam Farm and today, he\u00a0listed his farm chores\u00a0and commented on how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130419-032.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}