{"id":4005,"date":"2019-05-26T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2019-05-26T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T15:14:29","slug":"87-may-26-2019-compost-mulch-and-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/2019\/05\/26\/87-may-26-2019-compost-mulch-and-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"#87 &ndash; May 26, 2019 &ndash; Compost, Mulch, and Fence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dear Friends,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s time to prepare the garden at Ishwar\u2019s dera land in Bruce, Wisconsin.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A local farmer delivers a load of magnificent, rich, organic compost to the site.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"4688CD11-D481-44F7-A427-77C3978006D3\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1-Dera-2019-David-dump-trucking-garden-compost.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A large bale of hay is unloaded from the Dera Dumper. The hay will be used to mulch the garden.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"4863BC56-E056-4096-8EE0-A96EACA5C845\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dera-2019-David-moving-hay-bale.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The garden is turned using a \u201cquack digger\u201d attachment on the tractor. This digger turns up the roots of grasses and weeds, so that they decompose, rather than grow. It also turns under the compost that was spread on the field.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"9F9DE97D-5AD6-492B-808A-75F9AE9F16AD\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5ceaaa59c0d75.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And then, on a rainy May weekend, a small team of water-resistant workers gather to install the new fencing around the expanded garden.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"B5F509DB-F48A-4D68-9558-4EC382BC53E6\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/7-Dera-2019-Fencing-garden-in-rain-3.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At about 60 feet wide by 130 feet long, the 2019 garden is nearly double the size of the 2018 garden. Here, the crew has installed the T-posts around the garden area.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"9F99E9F1-5E0C-4F51-BF9E-942568AC7E62\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/4-Dera-2019-Fencing-garden-in-rain-2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Due to a healthy population of local bunny rabbits, it\u2019s necessary to install a low rabbit-proof fence around the entire garden.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"B4507202-4B3F-4817-AB53-B227776F51BA\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-Dera-2019-Fencing-garden-in-rain-1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 6-foot fence is designed to keep the Whitetail Deer out of the garden.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BE2ABCF2-5AB3-4349-944B-F12606793860\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dera-2019-Fencing-garden-in-rain-\u2013-Version-2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fenced! &nbsp;Bring on the bunnies and deer!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"FA18DD55-B69B-4174-A489-08FA025EA553\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dera-2019-Fencing-garden-in-rain.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"47ABD61F-C68B-46C5-A48B-DA4618B234A7\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dera-deer.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the next blog, the garden is planted!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;\">\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With warmest regards,<\/span><br class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Paul Bauer<\/span><br class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chair of ISHA Building &amp; Fund-Raising Committee<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, &nbsp; It\u2019s time to prepare the garden at Ishwar\u2019s dera land in Bruce, Wisconsin.&nbsp; &nbsp; A local farmer delivers a load of magnificent, rich, organic compost to the site. &nbsp; A large bale of hay is unloaded from the Dera Dumper. The hay will be used to mulch the garden. &nbsp; The garden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-construction-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}