{"id":393,"date":"2013-05-14T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?page_id=393"},"modified":"2017-01-06T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:00:16","slug":"random-farm-ashford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/protected-farms\/random-farm-ashford\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Farm, Ashford"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust
\n<\/strong>Year Protected: 2004<\/strong>
\nAcres: 212
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William Paradis donated a conservation easement on his family\u2019s farm to fulfill his and his late wife Dorothy\u2019s desire to insure that their land remain a working farm.  Farmed since the early 1700s, the 212-acre former dairy is now a horse farm and the new owners plan to also raise grass-fed beef.  The farm is part of 700+ contiguous acres of protected land, which includes a 400-acre farm protected by the CT Farmland Preservation Program<\/a>.  Approximately 1,400 acres of active farmland lie within two miles of the farm.  Paradise Farm is privately owned and is not open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cConnecticut Farmland Trust is much needed and fills an important gap.  Dorothy and I considered many different preservation options.  None of them satisfied our desire to ensure our land would remain a working farm.  The Trust presented us with the best possible alternative.\u201d – Bill Paradis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2004 Acres: 212 William Paradis donated a conservation easement on his family\u2019s farm to fulfill his and his late wife Dorothy\u2019s desire to insure that their land remain a working farm.  Farmed since the early 1700s, the 212-acre former dairy is now a horse farm and the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-393","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions\/4107"}],"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=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}