{"id":486,"date":"2007-07-10T01:24:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caliban.org\/wp\/2007\/07\/10\/picking-berries\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T01:24:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T00:24:48","slug":"picking-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2007\/07\/picking-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Berries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago on Sunday, we seized a dry, sunny moment and drove over to the neighbourhood of <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oud_Osdorp\">Oud Osdorp<\/a>, a lovely area of rural tranquility on the outskirts of Amsterdam and not at all representative of what comes to mind when one hears the name Osdorp these days.<\/p>\n\n<p>The reason was the organic farm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deboterbloemamsterdam.nl\/\">De Boterbloem<\/a>, where Elo&iuml;se got to pick her own delicious strawberries from the vegetable garden. While we were there, we were also able to pick some flowers to brighten up the home.<\/p>\n\n<p>It was lovely to be able to offer Elo&iuml;se the opportunity to pick her own fruit, thereby giving her her first indication of where the stuff actually comes from. It doesn&#8217;t just magically appear in the supermarket and it&#8217;s good for her to understand that a lot of time and effort goes into the stages of planting, cultivating and harvesting before she can pop a strawberry into her mouth.<\/p>\n\n<p>And how pleasant that all of the produce is organically grown. The farm has a calming atmosphere about it, with a nice wooden barn in which the shop is situated. It reminded me a bit of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telemarkinn.com\/\">dog sleigh farm<\/a> in Maine that we visited last autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago on Sunday, we seized a dry, sunny moment and drove over to the neighbourhood of Oud Osdorp, a lovely area of rural tranquility on the outskirts of Amsterdam and not at all representative of what comes to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2007\/07\/picking-berries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}