{"id":1626,"date":"2017-12-20T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnackley.com\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2017-12-20T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:53:35","slug":"jad171220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/jad171220\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Farming in Pittsburgh. Garden-go-round. Slacking at Scale. &#8211; Dispatch 12-20-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Here are links and notes from the Dispatch for Dec 20, 2017. You can catch the live broadcast on my <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/johnjackley\">Facebook account<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Welcome to Dispatch where I bring you news and information about real food, tech, and random cool stuff that you can use to improve yourself, your business, your world, and have fun doing it.<\/p>\n<h2>Today&#8217;s Stories<\/h2>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_66405\"  width=\"1080\" height=\"608\"  data-origwidth=\"1080\" data-origheight=\"608\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Em2QjVagXE?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&modestbranding=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>This Albany, Oregon store <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corvallisadvocate.com\/2017\/city-dwellers-take-root-albanys-new-urban-agriculture-supply-shop\/\">supplies urban farmers with everything they need<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, Pittsburgh boasts several urban farms: \u00a0Garfield, Larimer, Grow Pittsburgh, Garden Dreams, Burgh Bees Apiary, and Hilltop which is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextpittsburgh.com\/city-design\/hilltop-urban-farm-pittsburghs-hilltop-will-nations-largest-urban-farm\/\">largest urban farm<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>Garfield Community Farm is holding an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1455824804537815\/\">Urban Agriculture course\u00a0on Feb 3, 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, my friends Mike and Karen Kovach of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WalnutHillFarm\/\">Walnut Hill Farm produce the best grass-fed chicken, pork, beef, lamb and turkeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gardening with the <a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/rotating-indoor-garden-grows-up-to-100-herbs-and-vegetables-every-month\/\">OGarden indoor system goes round and round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Slack.com is one of my favorite communication tools. Here&#8217;s a (very techy) <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.engineering\/scaling-slacks-job-queue-687222e9d100\">glimpse behind of the scenes of how Slack handles ALL THOSE MESSAGES<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h3>What Cool News are YOU Finding (or Creating)?<\/h3>\n<p>Sent me a note at john@Johnackley.com and let me know what you&#8217;ve found or created and I&#8217;ll share it here.<\/p>\n<h3>Please Get My Newsletter<\/h3>\n<p>If you like the Dispatch, you&#8217;ll love my weekly newsletter. Sign up <a href=\"http:\/\/johnackley.com\/newsletter\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are links and notes from the Dispatch for Dec 20, 2017. You can catch the live broadcast on my Facebook account. Welcome to Dispatch where I bring you news and information about real food, tech, and random cool stuff that you can use to improve yourself, your business, your world, and have fun doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}