{"id":501,"date":"2011-02-24T22:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T22:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolealea.com.s81336.gridserver.com\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2011-02-25T04:40:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:40:46","slug":"terracing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/?page_id=501","title":{"rendered":"Terracing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282\" title=\"title_terracing\" src=\"https:\/\/kolealea.com.s81336.gridserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/title_terracing.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"36\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/title_terracing.gif 200w, https:\/\/kolealea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/title_terracing-150x27.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Terracing stabilizes the hillsides; stops major erosion caused by strong rains. It  \t   also increases the access to the hillside areas, and it increases growing space for  \t   our edibles.<\/p>\n<p>We are working on a hillside to plant vegetable gardens in raised beds. After  \t\tleveling the floor of the terrace and cutting straight down the bank, we have an  \t\tinvasive ground cover to remove and weed mat to place down and secure in place. Our  \t\traised beds will be made of rock, a material abundant in the riverbed that runs  \t\tthroughout the length of the property. The land continues to provide\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Our raised beds will be about 18 inches high, 20 feet long, and from 15 to 24  \t\tinches deep across the top from front to back, depending on the particular  \t\tterrace. This will leave a walking path of about 12-15 inches in front of each  \t\tbed. On our first selected area we will have enough space for two beds per  \t\tterrace with walking space in between.<\/p>\n<p>Rocks are and will continue to be carried by hand by the mightiest of us (that&#8217;s all \t\tof us, of course) from 30 to some 70 yards away from the selected planting  \t\tarea. Sometimes we enlist the help of a wagon or cart for a part of the way, then  \t\tup the hillside again by hand and back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terracing stabilizes the hillsides; stops major erosion caused by strong rains. It also increases the access to the hillside areas, and it increases growing space for our edibles. We are working on a hillside to plant vegetable gardens in raised beds. After leveling the floor of the terrace and cutting straight down the bank, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolealea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}