{"id":2374,"date":"2010-07-04T14:09:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2010-07-04T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T19:09:22","slug":"fun-news-vineyards-golf-sheep-and-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/04\/fun-news-vineyards-golf-sheep-and-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun News! Vineyards, Golf, Sheep and Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy July 4<sup>th<\/sup>! Hope you are enjoying a relaxing day, drinking a glass of wine \u2013 perhaps a fruity, crisp white Riesling and staying cool.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I read one of our local online news stations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/\">wtop.com<\/a>. They feature a section called Watercooler. An article\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/?nid=456&amp;sid=1995240\">ND golf course brings in weed-eating goats<\/a>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">is about goats eating grass on a golf course. It seems that the goats can be moved to different locations on the golf course as needed. The article is based on a full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/kfyrtv.com\/News_Stories.asp?news=41248\">http:\/\/kfyrtv.com\/News_Stories.asp?news=41248<\/a>.\u00a0 I am not a golfer so I\u2019m wondering what most golfers think. Any golfers out there care to express an opinion?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some vineyardists are already finding it useful to use Babydoll sheep in their vineyards to keep the weeds and grass under control. <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/california\/navarro.php\">Navarro Vineyard<\/a>s in Mendocino County is using Babydoll sheep. Using certain types of sheep in vineyards is especially beneficial in vineyards that focus on organic farming.<\/p>\n<p>Many people are concerned about energy usage today. Perhaps we need to step back into history and look at other ways to save energy. Me? I wouldn\u2019t mind having a sheep or two instead of a lawnmower \u2013 somehow I don\u2019t think my neighbors or homeowner\u2019s association would approve. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Fun News! Vineyards, Golf, Sheep and Goats\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2374\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy July 4th! Hope you are enjoying a relaxing day, drinking a glass of wine \u2013 perhaps a fruity, crisp white Riesling and staying cool. This morning I read one of our local online news stations wtop.com. They feature a section called Watercooler. An article\u00a0ND golf course brings in weed-eating goats,\u00a0is about goats eating grass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[846,1442,1441,1445,133,1444,1443,296,135,90,98],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-4th-of-july","tag-babydoll-sheep","tag-goats","tag-golf-course","tag-july-4th","tag-mendocino-county","tag-navarre-vineyards","tag-organic","tag-riesling","tag-vineyards","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}