{"id":32,"date":"2010-06-17T19:02:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/food\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:41:43","slug":"the-appeal-of-farming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/alumni\/nicolas-lindholm\/the-appeal-of-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"The appeal of farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Q: What is it about farming that appeals to you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lindholm<\/strong>: The big appeal is the seasonality. I&#8217;m not doing the same thing every day, day after day, year after year. Season to season, it&#8217;s always changing. Pardon the pun, but there\u2019s always something new to grow into, something new to produce, something new to learn.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m 12 years into the blueberry operation and am only just starting to speak confidently on what\u2019s going on out on my blueberry field. It\u2019s much the same way with my vegetables \u2014 it\u2019s taken me this long to realize that I don\u2019t need to put so much interest or attention toward growing the tomato<em>plant<\/em>. But I really need to put my attention toward growing healthy soil, and then the tomato plant will just come along very happily on its own. That&#8217;s pretty much a recent discovery.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve always had a frontier to pursue. And I like working for myself and having a schedule that allows me to be with my family when I want, and having our children grow up knowing where our food comes from, what a carrot plant looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What is it about farming that appeals to you? Lindholm: The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":465,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/529"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}