{"id":59486,"date":"2014-10-17T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T19:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=59486"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T19:31:55","slug":"the-seed-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=59486","title":{"rendered":"The Seed Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 24.375px; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59487 aligncenter\" style=\"border-color: #bbbbbb; margin-top: 0.4em; background: #eeeeee;\" title=\"burnt clump grasses\" alt=\"Post fire site walk_2014 (18)\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-18-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-18-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-18.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of weeks, I worked with the City of Eugene putting together native seed mixes for different land managers.\u00a0 Last week, they caught a lucky break of good weather that allowed them to prescribe burn, so the seed mixes will now be dispersed at these sites.\u00a0 Putting these seed mixes together took place in the \u201cseed castle\u201d, a colossal wooden warehouse sitting right beside the train tracks. Gloomy and still like a scene from \u201cThe Departed\u201d, I kept my ears perked in anticipation of sirens and heavy footstep.\u00a0 Who knew when our covert restoration operations might be interrupted?\u00a0 There was a moment for contemplation.\u00a0 How funny it is that these seeds, seeds of opportunity, beauty, diversity, nutrition, seeds of life, that harbor so much potential, so much value for prairie health, so much importance, made their way to these plastic bags in this old, dreary, dank warehouse.\u00a0 I could only imagine how these little carbon capsules of unthinkable shapes and sizes will explode into their glorious forms and colors to feed the soil and the critters creeping and crawling about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59488 aligncenter\" title=\"prescribed burn\" alt=\"Post fire site walk_2014 (11)\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-11-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-11-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Post-fire-site-walk_2014-11.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks, I worked with the City of Eugene putting together native seed mixes for different land managers.\u00a0 Last week, they caught a lucky break of good weather that allowed them to prescribe burn, so the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=59486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59492,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59486\/revisions\/59492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}