{"id":71475,"date":"2016-07-30T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T04:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71475"},"modified":"2016-07-29T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T23:09:57","slug":"composting-workshop-at-the-oxford-farmers-market-aug-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71475","title":{"rendered":"Composting Workshop at the Oxford Farmers&#8217; Market Aug. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=60587\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-60587\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Farmers-Market-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Farmers' Market\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Farmers-Market.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Farmers-Market-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Oxford Farmers\u2019 Market welcomes back Rebecca Hargrave for a presentation on composting in the bandstand of Lafayette Park, Village of Oxford, on <span tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2051971030\">August 6th, 10 am to 12 noon<\/span>. This program is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Compost is a great addition to your garden and your landscape\u2014it adds nutrients for plants to grow, holds water in the soil, increases soil life and can help protect your soil and plants. Come learn how compost can be made at home for very little money. \u201cComposting will also save you<!--more--> a lot on your trash bill and fertilizer costs,\u201d explains Rebecca Hargrave, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences at Morrisville State College. She will do brief presentations every half hour, reviewing display items and taking questions in between.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxford Farmers\u2019 Market takes place every Saturday, 9 am to 12 noon. Peak-season produce is coming on the park now, along with a wide variety of baked goods, staples for kitchen and home, hand-crafted items, fiber products, and all-natural soaps. Featured this week at market: peppers, snap beans, and watermelon from Cheri Ring, berries from Le Nid Homestead, grass-fed ground beef from Maple Hill Farm, and floral soaps from GG Willow. For more information about the Oxford Farmers\u2019 Market, call <a href=\"tel:607.226.6483\" target=\"_blank\">607.226.6483<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:freshfromyourneighbors@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">freshfromyourneighbors@gmail.<wbr \/>com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Farmers\u2019 Market welcomes back Rebecca Hargrave for a presentation on composting in the bandstand of Lafayette Park, Village of Oxford, on August 6th, 10 am to 12 noon. This program is free and open to the public. Compost is a great addition to your garden and your landscape\u2014it adds nutrients for plants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}