{"id":81,"date":"2023-06-24T04:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2023-06-24T04:43:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:43:44","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>M<\/em>y name is Katrina, and I am 28 years old. My farming experience started 7 years ago, and before that I had not had any experience with anything garden related except for the two accidental (my brother threw a tomato in the yard) tomato plants that we had when I was a child. I grew up in the city, growing my own food wasn\u2019t anywhere on my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My husband grew up on farms. His mothers and sisters ride and train horses, and his mom and her friend have owned and operated Freeway Farm, a small WA not for profit farm, since 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We met in 2012, and we moved onto the farm in Lakewood, WA not too long after. Let me tell you, I was NOT a fan. Adapting to farm life as a girl who really likes shorts, flats, and sandals was quite hard and took a long time. There are still things to this day that I have trouble with!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We didn\u2019t live on the farm long, but it was just long enough to get me interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 2013 and 2016, we welcomed 2 children; our oldest Oliver was born early in 2014, and our middle child, Thea was born in December of 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer of 2016 we moved back to the farm! I started riding horses, and helping in the gardens much more. My first animal project would be the following year, and we got chickens, which I think is still my favorite animal on our farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I slowly took on more responsibility with the gardens, until the end of 2017, when my mother in law handed the reigns to me. I expanded the garden spaces little by little, got ducks and geese, and then sheep!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcomed our youngest, William, in July of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, my family is working on developing gardens and pasture on our small farm, and this year I aim to have a small CSA farm share offered, growing and preserving our produce, as well as stocking our freezers with meat from chickens and sheep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Katrina, and I am 28 years old. My farming experience started 7 years ago, and before that I had not had any experience with anything garden related except for the two accidental (my brother threw a tomato in the yard) tomato plants that we had when I was a child. I grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":782,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}