{"id":216,"date":"2011-03-22T20:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=216"},"modified":"2011-04-05T10:39:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:39:24","slug":"working-on-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/work-on-the-smallholding\/working-on-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since arriving here in Carmarthenshire last November we&#8217;ve been taking  our time to decide what to do with things. We do not plan to actively  farm our smallholding but to get the land back into shape before perhaps  letting the pasture for sheep, creating some more woodland and  harvesting the wood from our established woodland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217\" title=\"fence\" src=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fence.jpg\" alt=\"hedge\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fence.jpg 550w, http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fence-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Newly Cut Back Boundary and Repaired Fence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During January and February John spent some time with our adjoining  neighbour cutting back the overgrown branches and mending the fences as  the existing posts were breaking off. During March we have had such a  long spell of dry warm weather that we started cutting up the timber and  burning the brash.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218\" title=\"liz_chainsaw\" src=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/liz_chainsaw.jpg\" alt=\"chainsaw\" width=\"343\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/liz_chainsaw.jpg 343w, http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/liz_chainsaw-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 85vw, 343px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liz &#39;poses&#39; with the Chainsaw (Wot no protective trousers or gloves?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219\" title=\"john_fire\" src=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/john_fire.jpg\" alt=\"fire\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/john_fire.jpg 550w, http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/john_fire-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Gets the Fire Going (eventually!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We did get quite distracted watching the Buzzards and Red Kites circling above us in the valley.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220\" title=\"house\" src=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/house.jpg\" alt=\"house\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/house.jpg 550w, http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/house-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our House Down in the Valley Below<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since arriving here in Carmarthenshire last November we&#8217;ve been taking our time to decide what to do with things. We do not plan to actively farm our smallholding but to get the land back into shape before perhaps letting the pasture for sheep, creating some more woodland and harvesting the wood from our established woodland. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/work-on-the-smallholding\/working-on-the-land\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Working on the Land&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}