{"id":1759,"date":"2018-07-10T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2018-07-10T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:38:13","slug":"farming-gods-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Farming &#8220;God&#8217;s way.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Continuing to catch up on last couple months&#8230; \u00a0<\/em>I recently interviewed Bluffton farmer Greg Probst at his &#8220;Century Farm&#8221; for a local newspaper article. \u00a0 He grows everything organically, has free-range chickens (no antibiotics), etc., etc., etc&#8230; \u00a0He said he believes he is farming <strong>&#8220;God&#8217;s way.&#8221;<\/strong> \u00a0I do too. \u00a0As we have traveled, we have regularly stopped, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/agrarian\">sometimes worked at<\/a>, various organic farms. \u00a0On a stop in Oberlin, Ohio, I met with author <strong>David Orr<\/strong>, who is also the head of Oberlin College&#8217;s Environmental Science Department. \u00a0In his book <strong><em>Earth in Balance<\/em><\/strong>, he writes that artificial toxic herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers are creating &#8220;chemical cocktails&#8221; that are exploding into all sorts of disease in our bodies, including cancer. \u00a0One in three Americans now get cancer in a lifetime. \u00a0That&#8217;s not happening in a vacuum. \u00a0Common sense says we should stop using these toxic chemicals, and our \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/agriculture\">agriculture platform<\/a> goes into this in depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to catch up on last couple months&#8230; \u00a0I recently interviewed Bluffton farmer Greg Probst at his &#8220;Century Farm&#8221; for a local newspaper article. \u00a0 He grows everything organically, has free-range chickens (no antibiotics), etc., etc., etc&#8230; \u00a0He said he <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1759\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}