{"id":1869,"date":"2017-08-31T14:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/?page_id=1869"},"modified":"2017-09-04T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:45:25","slug":"august-20-2017-apple-almond-harvest-party","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/events\/august-20-2017-apple-almond-harvest-party\/","title":{"rendered":"August 20, 2017: Apple + Almond Harvest Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had about 30 people come to Amy and Peter&#8217;s homestead in south Petaluma to gather almonds and apples together!<\/p>\n<p>The precious farm has orchards, goats, sheep, chickens, bees and a livestock guard dog. It also has native landscape plantings including a baby oak woodlands and a baby Monterey Cypress grove.<\/p>\n<p>First we picked the almonds and processed them by peeling off the hull then cracking open the shell to get at the precious seeds. It made us appreciate how much work it is to harvest almonds!<\/p>\n<p>We then had our picnic and picked and washed apples to bring home.<\/p>\n<p>One couple came from San Francisco. The wife was so happy because the event reminded her of her home in Taiwan &#8211; she said it was the community spirit of picking together, processing the food together and then eating healthy food made it feel like home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1870 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><br \/>\nPicking almonds<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1871 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"490\" \/><br \/>\nAlmond bounty!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1872 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><br \/>\nProcessing the almonds<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1873 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><br \/>\nThe sheep enjoying the almonds we dropped<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1880 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"490\" \/><br \/>\nMore almond processing<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1874 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><br \/>\nOur delicious potluck!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1914 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/09\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" \/><br \/>\nGathering golden delicious, Fuji and red gravenstein apples<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1875 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"490\" \/><br \/>\nApples being gently washed with water and a splash of vinegar<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1876 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><br \/>\nMaya holding court<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1878 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/08\/2017-08-AppleAlmond-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple joy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">By Karen &amp; Jay Hamilton-Roth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had about 30 people come to Amy and Peter&#8217;s homestead in south Petaluma to gather almonds and apples together! The precious farm has orchards, goats, sheep, chickens, bees and a livestock guard dog. It also has native landscape plantings including a baby oak woodlands and a baby Monterey Cypress grove. First we picked the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/events\/august-20-2017-apple-almond-harvest-party\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"parent":308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":["post-1869","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1869","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=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1869\/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=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}