{"id":134522,"date":"2022-01-22T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard"},"modified":"2022-01-22T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:24:21","slug":"100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard","title":{"rendered":"100% Zero-Emissions Cherry Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forest Lodge Orchard is New Zealand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestlodge.nz\/\">first zero-emissions food producer<\/a>. Forest Lodge Orchard is located in Central Otago, New Zealand, and is 100% free of fossil fuels. The farmers have electrified everything at the orchard \u2014 their irrigation, frost-fighting fans, electric vehicles, tools, and more. Supporting this electrification with a 45 kW solar power array and extendable battery storage system.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, Forest Lodge will have its first zero-emission harvest of cherries. The focus is on the climate, and the folks at Forest Lodge believe that New Zealand\u2019s future as a food-producing nation will excel with the ability to grow and produce food in a sustainable and climate-friendly way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest Lodge Orchard is New Zealand\u2019s first zero-emissions food producer. Forest Lodge Orchard is located in Central Otago, New Zealand, and is 100% free of fossil fuels. The farmers have electrified everything at the orchard \u2014 their irrigation, frost-fighting fans, electric vehicles, tools, and more. Supporting this electrification with a 45 kW solar power array [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}