{"id":1175,"date":"2010-04-15T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:42:32","slug":"mro%e2%80%99s-own-edible-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/04\/mro%e2%80%99s-own-edible-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"MRO\u2019s Own Edible Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tina Schneider, who works in Park and Planning\u2019s Environmental Division, was talking with Planning Director Rollin Stanley about ways to \u201cgreen\u201d our site. They came up with a number of ideas, which will become our sustainable landscape plan, that include a few bee hives on the roof (starting in mid-May) and turning our flower beds into a vegetable garden rather than planting and replanting them with annuals through the season. About a dozen employees (from neophytes to experts) have volunteered to help design, plant, maintain, and harvest the garden.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Today, Mohammed Turay\u2019s crew of the Parks Department generously got us started by removing the mulch, tilling the soil, and adding some amendments. We\u2019ll have the soil tested this week and the group will work on its design. We want to be ready to plant by mid-May and are considering herbs, eggplants, dwarf tomatoes, and maybe even some okra.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

We\u2019re also trying to do this as inexpensively and ecologically as possible by using what we have and picking up donations where we can. Check in through the spring and summer to see our progress.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tina Schneider, who works in Park and Planning\u2019s Environmental Division, was talking with Planning Director Rollin Stanley about ways to \u201cgreen\u201d our site. They came up with a number of ideas, which will become our sustainable landscape plan, that include a few bee hives on the roof (starting in mid-May) and turning our flower beds into a vegetable garden rather than planting and replanting them with annuals through the season. About a dozen employees (from neophytes to experts) have volunteered to help design, plant, maintain, and harvest the garden.<\/p>\n

Today, Mohammed Turay\u2019s crew of the Parks Department generously got us started by removing the mulch, tilling the soil, and adding some amendments. We\u2019ll have the soil tested this week … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,20],"tags":[93,95,487,94],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-planning","category-public-spaces","tag-edible-estates","tag-green-site-design","tag-public-spaces","tag-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}