{"id":1223,"date":"2015-08-09T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T18:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/?page_id=1223"},"modified":"2016-09-12T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T03:57:37","slug":"august-8-2015-amys-homestead-visit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/events\/august-8-2015-amys-homestead-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"August 8, 2015: Visit Amy\u2019s Homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the border of Marin and Sonoma County lies a sweet 9-acre homestead with chickens, goats, 2 livestock guardian dogs, a large vegetable garden ringed with almond and fruit trees and native plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2016\/09\/2015-08-AmysTour.jpg\" alt=\"WAPF Tour\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our welcoming and gracious hosts, Amy and Peter, have been consciously co-creating their land since 2000. Amy jokes that her old persona &#8220;Condo Girl&#8221; is now dead, now that her hard-won knowledge of gardening and ranching has filled her days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2016\/09\/2015-08-AmysChickens.jpg\" alt=\"WAPF Tour\" width=\"513\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their nine chickens live in a luxury 3-story chicken tractor and a run they call the Russian Chicken Circus. They also roam freely around the property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2016\/09\/2015-08-AmysGoats.jpg\" alt=\"WAPF Tour\" width=\"554\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They have 3 Nigerian dwarf dairy goats named Cookie Dough, Buckminster, and Princess Moonspot who provide them with fresh milk so rich it tastes like vanilla ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, a friend will loan them a mama sheep and two young lambs to train their 5-month-old guardian dog puppy, Buddy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cback 40\u201d has incredible views of the Petaluma river and is occasionally rented for rotational grazing of cattle. Peter said that even though the land looks dry and barren right now, it\u2019s actually teeming with a variety of animals including: moles, voles, gophers, rabbits, and mice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2016\/09\/2015-08-AmysFood.jpg\" alt=\"WAPF Food\" width=\"575\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The potluck dishes were amazing! We had breaded beef liver on raw dandelion greens,\u00a0 fermented chickpea\/fava bean flatbread, homemade turkey sausages, salad with sungold tomatoes, bacon and blue cheese,\u00a0 eggplant dip,\u00a0 fresh corn and tomato salad, a variety of raw cured olives from Good Faith Farm, and three desserts (almond cookies, fudgy coconut flour brownies and peppermint-scented coconut snow balls with hempseed). Amy&#8217;s homemade kombucha was served, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">By Karen Hamilton-Roth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the border of Marin and Sonoma County lies a sweet 9-acre homestead with chickens, goats, 2 livestock guardian dogs, a large vegetable garden ringed with almond and fruit trees and native plants. Our welcoming and gracious hosts, Amy and Peter, have been consciously co-creating their land since 2000. Amy jokes that her old persona&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/events\/august-8-2015-amys-homestead-visit\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"parent":308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1223","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1223\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}