{"id":1682,"date":"2015-09-22T15:15:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?page_id=1682"},"modified":"2017-01-06T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:20:11","slug":"bilger-farm-meriden-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/protected-farms\/bilger-farm-meriden-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilger Farm, Meriden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bilger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4058\" src=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bilger-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bilger-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bilger-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bilger-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bilger.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, CT Department of Agriculture<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Year Protected: 2015<\/strong><b><br \/>\nAcres: 76<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>The&nbsp;farm has been operated by the Bilger family for a number of generations. Owner Lucille Bilger, the last remaining Bilger, moved to convey the farm&#8217;s development rights to the state after tractor accident of her 82-year old brother David in 2010. It is one of the last farms in Meriden and the first in the city to be protected under the state&#8217;s Farmland Preservation Program.&nbsp;The 76-acre farm includes a dairy barn, a colonial-style house built circa 1880, and a garage.<\/p>\n<p>Bilger Farm can be viewed from Chauncey Peak in the nearby New England Trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, CT Department of Agriculture Year Protected: 2015 Acres: 76 The&nbsp;farm has been operated by the Bilger family for a number of generations. Owner Lucille Bilger, the last remaining Bilger, moved to convey the farm&#8217;s development rights to the state after tractor accident of her 82-year old brother David in 2010. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":4015,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1682","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682\/revisions\/4183"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}