{"id":5028,"date":"2014-04-24T21:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T01:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2014-04-24T21:01:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T01:01:15","slug":"coming-through-the-rye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5028","title":{"rendered":"Coming Through the Rye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out in the fields terminating cover crops today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5029\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_085251_752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_085251_752-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Coming Through the Rye\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_085251_752-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_085251_752-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_085251_752.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coming Through the Rye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is cereal rye that we seeded last fall in the standing corn.  It started growing in the fall, lay dormant in the winter, and then started growing with a vengeance this spring.  The rye takes up nutrients in the soil that otherwise might be lost into the groundwater.  And its roots holds the soil from blowing or washing away.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, all good things must come to end.  It&#8217;s time to plant the cash crop.  The rye has done its job.  I&#8217;m killing it with herbicides and as it dies it will release the nutrients it contains back into the soil for the corn to take up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good system, but it&#8217;s just a baby step.  We&#8217;re trying to figure how to have something growing all the time, a permaculture of many things growing at once in the fields, each taking up and releasing nutrients in turn.<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration, not competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out in the fields terminating cover crops today. This is cereal rye that we seeded last fall in the standing corn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}