{"id":7548,"date":"2018-07-11T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/12\/furman-employs-lambscaping-team-to-maintain-solar-farm\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:14:38","slug":"furman-employs-lambscaping-team-to-maintain-solar-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-employs-lambscaping-team-to-maintain-solar-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman employs \u2018lambscaping\u2019 team to maintain solar farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local sheep farmer Steve Wood hesitated before coming to Furman with his idea of offering his sheep to help maintain hard-to-reach areas under solar panels at the university&#8217;s six-acre solar farm. In a piece by <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/2018\/07\/12\/furman-university-employs-lambscaping-team-to-maintain-solar-farm\/\"><strong>Greenville Journal&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> Andrew Moore, Wood said, &#8220;I figured the university would think I was crazy.&#8221; But Furman&#8217;s\u00a0Assistant Vice President of Facilities &amp; Campus Services\u00a0Jeff Redderson thought it was a great idea and approached Furman&#8217;s Shi Center with the possibility. Twelve sheep later, Furman is revamping the way it takes care of grass at the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local sheep farmer Steve Wood hesitated before coming to Furman with his idea of offering his sheep to help maintain hard-to-reach areas under solar panels at the university&#8217;s six-acre solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}