{"id":1912,"date":"2012-02-26T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2012-02-24T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:16:53","slug":"homeless-urban-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/26\/homeless-urban-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless urban&#8230;goats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1913\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/26\/homeless-urban-goats\/goat\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1913\" title=\"goat\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/goat-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/goat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/goat.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s the bright side of urban farming&#8211;rooftop gardens, community vegetable plots, backyard chickens&#8211;and there&#8217;s the dark side: abandoned goats and fowl. Here&#8217;s a story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utne.com\/The-Sweet-Pursuit\/Homeless-Goats-in-the-City.aspx?newsletter=1&amp;utm_content=02.24.12+Environment&amp;utm_campaign=2012+ENEWS&amp;utm_source=iPost&amp;utm_medium=email\">Utne<\/a> on the growing problem.<\/p>\n<p>Back on the farm, we welcome new animals daily. Our three bottle-fed lambs, housed for two months in Bill&#8217;s shop, are now in the playground with the big guys. Only downside: Bill is going through empty-nest syndrome, misses the company as he works in his pottery. (Photos to follow in an upcoming post.)<\/p>\n<p>What are the pros and cons of urban (or even village) farming? Everyone wants a few hens these days&#8230;good? not so good? And, larger animals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s the bright side of urban farming&#8211;rooftop gardens, community vegetable plots, backyard chickens&#8211;and there&#8217;s the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1420,6224,6223,6222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}