{"id":318,"date":"2009-10-25T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-10-25T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T16:00:00","slug":"spring-brook-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/10\/25\/spring-brook-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Brook Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/sbf1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This past summer in New Brunswick, I again had the privilege of visiting my childhood friend&#8217;s farm. Jean-Pierre and I were little buddies when we were pre-schoolers because our parents were good friends. Along with my grandmother, he and his family represent for me my origins and a sense of home as they are geographically static and constants in my whirlwind upbringing and life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/sbf4.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At Spring Brook Farm pigs and chickens are raised with great care. The products are sold mainly at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchedieppemarket.com\/home.cfm\">Dieppe Farmer&#8217;s Market<\/a> that was established in large part due to the efforts of Jean-Pierre&#8217;s father. I had a couple opportunities this summer of tasting the meats and indeed they are exceptional.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The farm is very intentional and passionate about spreading the ideals of eating well (not that I disagree with them at all). In this world, they are almost voices crying out in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/sbf3.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>An example of their great practices is this chicken coop. Every day or two, they drag the building ahead with a tractor giving the chickens fresh grass to eat and leaving behind droppings to fertilize the soil. It takes just about a week to see the soil return to a rich green state after having heaps of free range chickens claw up the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/sbf2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m envious of their lifestyle as I&#8217;d love to raise my kids on a farm as opposed to suburbia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer in New Brunswick, I again had the privilege of visiting my childhood friend&#8217;s farm. Jean-Pierre and I were little buddies when we were pre-schoolers because our parents were good friends. Along with my grandmother, he and his family represent for me my origins and a sense of home as they are geographically &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/10\/25\/spring-brook-far\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,20,22,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-318","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-canadiana","9":"category-food","10":"category-nature","11":"category-politics","12":"category-travel","13":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}