{"id":13220,"date":"2011-10-08T23:23:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T04:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=13220"},"modified":"2012-05-28T00:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T05:14:48","slug":"fall-in-the-kaw-valley-farmland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2011\/10\/08\/fall-in-the-kaw-valley-farmland\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall in the Kaw Valley Farmland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Small local farms, wineries, and ranches team up at the Kaw Valley Farm Tour to display small-scale farming right in Lawrence&#8217;s backyard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>from nick curry<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>originally aired on ad astra radio on thursday october 6, 2011<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Kansas-Sunset_imagelarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13229\" title=\"Kansas-Sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Kansas-Sunset_imagelarge-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>Midwesterners are typically all-too-aware of the common misconception that there isn&#8217;t too much to places like Kansas other than endless fields of wheat and corn. To be fair, it&#8217;s a misconception not entirely<em>\u00a0<\/em>removed from fact: Kansas leads the nation in production of <em>both <\/em>wheat and sorghum. But there&#8217;s a lot more to Kansas than the seemingly\u00a0non-ending\u00a0amber waves of grain, as local producers showed at the Kaw Valley Farm Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Two dozen small-scale local producers, from alpaca ranchers to dairy farmers and family farms to middle school gardens, all opened their doors to the public on October 1 and 2 to show what they add to the local agriculture industry. We stopped by several to see what&#8217;s been growing around town and to meet the fine folks who have been doing the growing. Click &#8216;play&#8217; to hear more:<\/p>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;13230&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><em>More information about the Kaw Valley Farm Tour can be found at <a title=\"kawvalleyfarmtour.com\" href=\"http:\/\/kawvalleyfarmtour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">kawvalleyfarmtour.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small local farms, wineries, and ranches team up at the Kaw Valley Farm Tour to display small-scale farming right in Lawrence&#8217;s backyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":13229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Kansas-Sunset_imagelarge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}