{"id":6643,"date":"2017-12-07T16:41:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/?p=6643"},"modified":"2022-03-30T05:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:32:25","slug":"modern-homesteading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/2017\/12\/07\/modern-homesteading\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Homesteading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s a healthier lifestyle and its certainly makes me feel more fulfilled.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/246329283\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Modern Homesteading\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This documentary focuses on Kirsten Lie-Nielsen, a homestead farmer and writer who lives on a revitalized two-hundred year old farm in Liberty, ME. Hostile Valley Farm utilizes old farming techniques and new, Kirsten uses a flock of geese for weed and crop control, has rebuilt a barn that was previously abandoned to house flocks of chicken, geese, and goats, and plans on cultivating Maine medicinal plant crops in the future. <i>Modern Homesteading: Hostile Valley Living <\/i>explores the incentives and challenges of modern homestead farming from Kirsten\u2019s own experiences.<\/p>\n<p>A film by Max Manos and Danya Smith<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6643\" data-postid=\"6643\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6643 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s a healthier lifestyle and its certainly makes me feel more fulfilled.\u201d This documentary focuses on Kirsten Lie-Nielsen, a homestead farmer and writer who lives on a revitalized two-hundred year old farm in Liberty, ME. Hostile Valley Farm utilizes old farming techniques and new, Kirsten uses a flock of geese for weed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5263,"featured_media":6664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209991,17553],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6665,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions\/6665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}