{"id":907,"date":"2016-05-16T19:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/?p=907"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:44:41","slug":"moving-along-on-our-permaculture-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/moving-along-on-our-permaculture-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Along on our Permaculture Homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a busy couple of weeks with planting and weeding and growing mirogreens and selling at a couple of farmer&#8217;s markets.\u00a0 At the risk of &#8220;jinxing&#8221; everything, the homestead is looking good right now.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an update:<\/p>\n\n<p>The strawberry plants are doing well.\u00a0 The bed isn&#8217;t wide enough (that was covered in an earlier post) but the pleasure I get when I step out the back door and see all those lovely plants on top of the rock wall 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