{"id":1,"date":"2008-01-26T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/2008\/01\/26\/hello-world\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T00:47:27","slug":"meet-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/2008\/01\/26\/meet-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet your farmers: Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi – Ali here.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Meet<\/a><\/p>\n

I first came to Wheatland as a summer worker between my sophomore and junior years at St. John\u2019s College in Annapolis. It sounded like a challenge, and I wanted to work outside. After three years as a seasonal employee at Wheatland, I was ready to commit to a career in farming. I spent two seasons as a crew leader at another farm, managing seasonal staff in the daily tasks of keeping a farm running. It was my first experience in a formal management position, and it really helped me appreciate what goes on behind the scenes. I found that managing a crew well meant learning how to manage my time effectively and how to communicate clearly with workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In late 2005 I spoke again with Wheatland owners Chip and Susan Planck. They\u2019ve been farming at Wheatland since the mid-1970s and were ready to invest time and energy into creating a co-housing community on the farm. At the same time, they were thinking really creatively about how to support young farmers in building a viable career. I entered into a special lease agreement: in return for rent, shared cost of equipment maintenance, and a percentage of market profits, I\u2019m allowed use of land and machinery. It\u2019s a pretty favorable situation! It\u2019s a chance for us to get started as farmers without the up-front expenses of buying land and equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read about how Lisa came to Wheatland here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi – Ali here. I first came to Wheatland as a summer worker between my sophomore and junior years at St. John\u2019s College in Annapolis. It sounded like a challenge, and I wanted to work outside. After three years as a seasonal employee at Wheatland, I was ready to commit to a career in farming. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whos-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eightacresfarm.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}