{"id":6034,"date":"2020-12-14T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2020-12-14T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:27:22","slug":"farming-success-is-a-team-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2020\/12\/14\/farming-success-is-a-team-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Farming Success is a Team Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet\u00a0 Bill and Carol Hayes of Dilly Dally Farm. I interviewed them in March.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Hayes and his wife, Carol, own Dilly Dally Farm in Plymouth, Maine and use organic practices to maintain five year-round production greenhouses. In addition, they plant four-and-a-half acres of mixed vegetables and raise broilers and turkeys for market.<\/p>\n

Bill had surgery to amputate both legs below the knees feet in the summer of 2018. It took several months in a wheelchair to recover. \u201cThat was hard. When he was out of commission,\u201d Carol said, \u201cI couldn\u2019t do nearly as much as I do now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maine AgrAbility plays an important role<\/b><\/h3>\n
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For Bill, this means he doesn\u2019t have to lift his prosthetic leg as high to climb the steps, easing the stress on his shoulders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An additional step can be easily added to a piece of equipment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Bill got back to work on the farm, there were some things he couldn\u2019t do. He contacted Maine AgrAbility for help.<\/p>\n

AgrAbility staff asked, \u201cWhat can we do to help you get back to your normal routine on the farm?\u201d We assessed the equipment Bill needed to return to full employment and then connected him with Vocational Rehabilitation. VR has funding to accommodate the needs of persons with disabilities. Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a team,\u201d Carol said. \u201cMaine AgrAbility got Billy back on his feet. Now he has all the tools he needs\u2014it\u2019s been tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet\u00a0 Bill and Carol Hayes of Dilly Dally Farm. I interviewed them in March. Bill Hayes and his wife, Carol, own Dilly Dally Farm in Plymouth, Maine and use organic practices to maintain five year-round production greenhouses. In addition, they plant four-and-a-half acres of mixed vegetables and raise broilers and turkeys for market. Bill had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"66","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-agrability-blog"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":66,"label":"Maine AgrAbility Blog"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":66,"name":"Maine AgrAbility Blog","slug":"maine-agrability-blog","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":66,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":50,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":66,"category_count":50,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Maine AgrAbility Blog","category_nicename":"maine-agrability-blog","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6040,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}