{"id":1233,"date":"2011-06-30T21:27:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2011-06-30T21:29:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:29:46","slug":"fur-traders-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/2011\/06\/fur-traders-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fur Trader&#8217;s Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A PhD history candidate at York University is looking for anyone who can share their Orkney gardening experience to shed light on the Hudson Bay Company fur trader&#8217;s gardens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tankerness_house_gardens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1214\" title=\"Tankerness_house_gardens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tankerness_house_gardens-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tankerness_house_gardens\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tankerness_house_gardens-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tankerness_house_gardens-203x152.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tankerness_house_gardens-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tankerness_house_gardens.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tankerness House Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She is\u00a0 writing her thesis on the fur traders&#8217;s gardens featuring the Hudson&#8217;s Bay Company from 1670 &#8211; 1770.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This means exploring how the early Orkneymen who arrived on Hudson&#8217;s Bay were expected to plant gardens and cultivate vegetables in a land where gardening had never been attempted.<\/p>\n<p>She would love to hear from anyone in the Orkney Islands who can share the Orkney garden experience\u00a0 (today and\/or 1670 &#8211; 1770).<\/p>\n<p>Are you an Orkney Gardener?<\/p>\n<p>What are the challenges and or benefits of growing food in the islands?<\/p>\n<p>Did your ancestors work for the Hudson Bay Company?<\/p>\n<p>How do Orcadian&#8217;s view gardening?<\/p>\n<p>What grows well and what do you struggle to grow?<\/p>\n<p>If you feel you can help in any way, please contact us using the comments section at the end of this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This means exploring how the early Orkneymen who arrived on Hudson&#8217;s Bay were expected to plant gardens and cultivate vegetables<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1388,22],"tags":[312,347,2535,1717,2525,2520,2521,2534,2536,1156,2529,2528,120,2526,2522,2524,2523,2530],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agriculture","category-featured","tag-ancestors","tag-caption","tag-challenges","tag-comments-section","tag-fur-trader","tag-fur-traders","tag-garden-experience","tag-gardener","tag-gardening","tag-hudson-bay-company","tag-hudson-s-bay","tag-hudson-s-bay-company","tag-orkney-islands","tag-phd-history","tag-plant-gardens","tag-thesis","tag-vegetables","tag-york-university","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tankerness_house_gardens.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tankerness_house_gardens.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spirit-of-orkney.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}