{"id":86967,"date":"2023-10-02T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=86967"},"modified":"2023-10-02T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:34:46","slug":"cleaning-after-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=86967","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning after Collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"86973\"  src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0566-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0566-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0566-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0566-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0566-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0566-1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Seed ready to be cleaned <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Restoring tall grass prairies demands a substantial amount of seed, approximately 20 pounds per acre. Midewin maintains three seed production areas on their property, and these seed beds produce the majority of the seed used to restore the prairie&#8217;s at Midewin. The reality is that there simply aren&#8217;t enough remnant prairies to collect from, and the scale of collection needed would have a detrimental impact on plant and animal populations. While we continue to collect from wild populations, our efforts are supplemented by gathering seeds from the seed beds and purchasing seeds from local wholesalers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"86977\"  src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0215-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0215-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0215-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0215-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0215-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0215-1-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Seed beds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As we collect and collect, the bags start piling up in the horticulture building. The sheer volume of seed makes it impossible to rely solely on hand-cleaning. While hand-cleaning can suffice for certain sedges early in the season, when the bulk collections start rolling in, it&#8217;s time to put the seed cleaning machines to work! These machines clean seed much more efficiently, completing a task that would otherwise take a full 8 hours of manual labor in under 20 minutes. The result is thoroughly cleaned seed, free of dust, stems, and leaves, ready to be sown this winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"86974\"  src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0542-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0542-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0542-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0542-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0542-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0542-1-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"86971\"  src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0541-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0541-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0541-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0541-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0541-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0541-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Seed cleaning machines!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoring tall grass prairies demands a substantial amount of seed, approximately 20 pounds per acre. Midewin maintains three seed production areas on their property, and these seed beds produce the majority of the seed used to restore the prairie&#8217;s at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=86967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[50,3489,3634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86967"}],"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\/7601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86991,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86967\/revisions\/86991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}