{"id":323,"date":"2006-05-31T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=323"},"modified":"2006-05-31T04:50:45","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T04:50:45","slug":"food_for_though_4-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_4-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Fraser Valley Part One &#8211; Two Dairy Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1920\" height=\"266\" alt=\"Img_1920\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1920.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> This week I began a four-part series on some fascinating farms and farmers I met during a recent trip to Agassiz, in BC&#8217;s verdant Fraser Valley.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s item portrayed two different dairy farms, the first one a goat farm with 550 goats, owned by Marcus and Andrea Flukiger.&nbsp; These Swiss emigres can&#8217;t keep up with the demand for goat&#8217;s milk.&nbsp; They send it all for processing to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happydaysdairy.com\/\">Happy Days Goat Dairy <\/a>in Chilliwack.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1904.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1904\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Img_1904\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1904.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> I also visited Valedoorn Farm, owned and operated by John and Tom Hoogendoorn of Agassiz.&nbsp; This is the most modern and high-tech dairy farm I have ever seen.&nbsp; The milking parlor alone is a model of efficiency, with a computerized system that tells the farmer everything he needs to know about milk production from each cow.&nbsp; To listen to today&#8217;s item in streaming RealAudio, click <a href=\"\/files\/fft_week22-06.ram\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I began a four-part series on some fascinating farms and farmers I met during a recent trip to Agassiz, in BC&#8217;s verdant Fraser Valley.&nbsp; Today&#8217;s item portrayed two different dairy farms, the first one a goat farm with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_4-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}