{"id":414,"date":"2013-05-14T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?page_id=414"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:53:11","slug":"salem-valley-corporation-salem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/protected-farms\/salem-valley-corporation-salem\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Farm &#038; Mitchell Farm, Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Marvel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4033\" src=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Marvel-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Marvel-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Marvel-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Marvel-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, The Nature Conservancy, USDA-NRCS<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Year Protected: 2009<\/strong><b><br \/>\nAcres: 206<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Connecticut Farmland Trust collaborated with The Nature Conservancy to purchase an easement on 206 acres of the Marvel and Mitchell farms.&nbsp; This was CFT\u2019s first partnership with a national conservation organization.&nbsp; Owned by the same family for more than 150 years, the former dairy is now used as pasture for boarded horses and the hay fields are leased to a local farmer.&nbsp; More than 50% of the farms include prime and statewide important agricultural soils.&nbsp; The 206 acres are part of a 7,500+\/- acre block of public and private protected land.&nbsp; There are approximately 550 acres of active farmland within two miles of the farms.<\/p>\n<p>CFT secured funding from the USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service for the purchase of a conservation easement on the farms.&nbsp; Additional funding was provided by CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and The Nature Conservancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, The Nature Conservancy, USDA-NRCS Year Protected: 2009 Acres: 206 Connecticut Farmland Trust collaborated with The Nature Conservancy to purchase an easement on 206 acres of the Marvel and Mitchell farms.&nbsp; This was CFT\u2019s first partnership with a national conservation organization.&nbsp; Owned by the same family for more than 150 years, [&hellip;]<\/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-414","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions\/6010"}],"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=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}