{"id":231,"date":"2015-11-18T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-11-18T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:35:02","slug":"carrot-harvest-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/blog\/carrot-harvest-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrot Harvest 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short video of carrot harvest 2015:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pvNVNl3wAio?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2879\" src=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0021-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of carrots\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2888\" src=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151017_172852-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20151017_172852\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The long rows of carrots.\u00a0This year we rented several acres of sandy land a couple of miles south of our house.\u00a0The carrots were planted with a one row garden seeder. Weeding\u00a0took place on hands and knees down all the long rows. Needless to say, it took a long time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2886\" src=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150829_185122-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150829_185122\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through out the season the carrots were\u00a0watered with a high-pressure sprinkler system from the nearby Arma slough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2881\" src=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0020-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Getting ready for harvesting.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Getting ready for a day of harvesting.\u00a0The harvester pulls the carrots, takes the tops off, and then conveys them over to crates that we built to store the carrots in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2882\" src=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0023-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Big carrots!\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We had some big carrots, some were much larger than these average sized ones!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2880\" src=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0009-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Carrot washer.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We built a carrot washer a few years ago but it was starting to need repairs on a regular basis plus getting small for\u00a0our needs. Because of this, we built this new washer which is about 3 times as big as the old one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2885\" src=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0017-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"KIMG0017\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The carrot washer in action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2883\" src=\"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Blog.php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/KIMG0032-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dumping.\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joshua and Jesse also built a pallet dumper to dump crates of carrots. The pallet dumper is attached to the skidsteer which we purchased, and allows us to rotate the crates. In this picture Andrew is\u00a0dumping carrots into tote bags for storage.\u00a0We were thankful to have finished carrot harvesting on October 26th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here is a short video of carrot harvest 2015: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The long rows of carrots.\u00a0This year we rented several acres of sandy land a couple of miles south of our house.\u00a0The carrots were planted with a one row garden seeder. Weeding\u00a0took place on hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thederksenfamily.com\/Farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}