
{"id":2916,"date":"2008-07-03T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2008-07-03T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T17:03:12","slug":"pasture-potluck-draws-mellow-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/07\/03\/pasture-potluck-draws-mellow-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasture potluck draws mellow crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by <strong>Catherine Rierson<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><br \/>\nA modest crowd gathered last Sunday evening for ChathamArts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Potluck in a Pasture at Bill Dow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ayrshire Farm in Pittsboro, the oldest certified organic farm in North Carolina, to share savory dishes of homegrown ingredients and to support local art.<br \/>\nGuests enjoyed a farm tour; a buffet spouting with such homemade dishes as corn risotto, cucumber salad and berry cobbler; and a meet-and-greet with local artists, and were given original recipes and unique growing tips from those on the forefront of organic farming.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think agriculture is its own kind of art, and when there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a chance for people to see what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on with it, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fall for it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dow said. <!--more--><br \/>\nSome sat in the grass, mingling and munching between rows of tomatoes and bell peppers, while others admired artists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work under the shade of bowing branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Catherine Rierson Staff Writer A modest crowd gathered last Sunday evening for ChathamArts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Potluck in a Pasture at Bill Dow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ayrshire Farm in Pittsboro, the oldest certified organic farm in North Carolina, to share savory dishes of homegrown ingredients and to support local art. Guests enjoyed a farm tour; a buffet spouting with such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","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=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}