
{"id":209,"date":"2007-04-26T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T18:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/04\/26\/weather-helps-boost-farm-visits\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T18:23:23","slug":"weather-helps-boost-farm-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/04\/26\/weather-helps-boost-farm-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather helps boost farm visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Kirk Ross<br \/>\n<\/strong>Staff Writer<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/farm042607.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/farm042607.jpg\" height=\"231\" width=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHEESE IT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Volunteers dish out the cheese samples for some of the thousands who visited Chapel Hill Creamery and other local farms on this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Piedmont Farm Tour. Photo by Kirk Ross<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nothing like good weather to boost prospects around the farm, and for the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual spring farm tour a beautiful weekend certainly helped.<\/p>\n<p>Roland McReynolds, CFSA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s executive director, said the tour is going to be a record breaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a fantastic weekend, outstanding for CFSA and for sustainable agriculture in our area,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d McReynolds said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still tallying up the numbers but we had 2,000 people on the tour last year and 7,400 farm visits, and we expect to far exceed those numbers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Volunteer hours were up as well, McReynolds said with more than 600 volunteer hours going into the effort. CSFA should also see a sizable increase in revenue from the $20,000 it took in last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It looks like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to break all the records,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d McReynolds said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This was just a great community effort.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirk Ross Staff Writer CHEESE IT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Volunteers dish out the cheese samples for some of the thousands who visited Chapel Hill Creamery and other local farms on this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Piedmont Farm Tour. Photo by Kirk Ross Nothing like good weather to boost prospects around the farm, and for the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}