{"id":13286,"date":"2023-08-04T08:41:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=13286"},"modified":"2023-08-04T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:44:22","slug":"farm-walk-gordon-farm","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/event\/farm-walk-gordon-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"SW Washington Food Hub Farm Walk &#8211; Gordon Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong><em>Two Upcoming SW Washington Food Hub Farm Walks<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Open to all Farmers and the General Public<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13287\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2056\/2023\/08\/IMG_5724-396x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2056\/2023\/08\/IMG_5724-396x528.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2056\/2023\/08\/IMG_5724.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13288\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2056\/2023\/08\/IMG_7119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gordon Farm &#8211; Farm Walk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, August 23th, 5pm to 7pm + social time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5154 Highway 12, Elma, WA 98541<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a farm walk at Gordon Farm in Elma Washington on August 23<sup>th<\/sup>. Gordon Farm is run Jay and Susan and is a 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0generation farm first established in 1872. The 600-acre farm boasts a rich diversity of grain, forages, vegetables, and wildlife along the Chehalis River. The farm is approximately divided into 450 acres of grass and alfalfa, 175 acres of corn, 20 acres of barley, and anywhere from a half to a couple acres in vegetables row crops including pumpkins and melons. Jay Gordon is also a founding member of the SW Washington Growers Co-op, and sells into both the grain and the vegetable sides of this farmer-owned cooperative established in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On this farm tour you\u2019ll learn about:<\/strong> Grain production; Fertigation systems for vegetable row-crop production; Wholesale vegetable crop production for the SW Washington Food Hub; Contract malting barley production through the SW Washington Growers cooperative for regional for Great Western Malting; The vagaries of keeping a 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0generation farm going through 150 years of change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Two Upcoming SW Washington Food Hub Farm Walks<\/em><\/strong><br \/> <strong><em>Open to all Farmers and the General Public<\/em><\/strong><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13287\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2056\/2023\/08\/IMG_5724-396x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2056\/2023\/08\/IMG_5724-396x528.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2056\/2023\/08\/IMG_5724.jpg ... <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/event\/farm-walk-gordon-farm\/\" class=\"more-link\"\/><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"event_city":"Elma","event_state":"WA","event_venue":"Gordon Farm","event_organizer":"","event_organizer_email":"","event_organizer_phone":"","event_organizer_website":"","event_website":"","event_cost":"","event_excerpt":"Two Upcoming SW Washington Food Hub Farm Walks\nOpen to all Farmers and the General Public\n \nGordon Farm &#8211; Farm Walk\nWednesday, August 23th, 5pm to 7pm + social time\n5154 Highway 12, Elma, WA 98541\nJoin us for a farm walk at Gordon Farm in Elma Washington on August 23th. Gordon Farm is run Jay and Susan and is a 7th\u00a0generation farm first established in 1872. The 600-acre farm boasts a rich diversity of grain, forages, vegetables, and wildlife along the Chehalis River. The farm is approximately divided into 450 acres of grass and alfalfa, 175 acres of corn, 20 acres of barley, and anywhere from a half to a couple acres in vegetables row crops including pumpkins and melons. Jay Gordon is also a founding member of the SW Washington Growers Co-op, and sells into both the grain and the vegetable sides of this farmer-owned cooperative established in 2019.\nOn this farm tour you\u2019ll learn about: Grain production; Fertigation systems for vegetable row-crop production; Wholesale vegetable crop production for the SW Washington Food Hub; Contract malting barley production through the SW Washington Growers cooperative for regional for Great Western Malting; The vagaries of keeping a 7th\u00a0generation farm going through 150 years of change.\n&nbsp;","start_date":"2023-08-23 17:30:00","end_date":"2023-08-23 19:30:00","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/13286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/13286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13289,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/13286\/revisions\/13289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13286"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=13286"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=13286"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/thurston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=13286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}