{"id":417,"date":"2013-05-14T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?page_id=417"},"modified":"2017-01-06T19:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:51:07","slug":"vanishing-geese-farm-durham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/protected-farms\/vanishing-geese-farm-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing Geese Farm, Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Vanishing_Geese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4048\" src=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Vanishing_Geese-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Vanishing_Geese-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Vanishing_Geese-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Vanishing_Geese-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Year Protected: 2009<\/strong><b><br \/>\nAcres: 43<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>James Scott donated a conservation easement on his family\u2019s 42-acre farm.&nbsp; The entire farm includes prime and statewide important agricultural soils.&nbsp; Purchased by the Scotts in 1979, Vanishing Geese Farm was run as a commercial sheep operation and has transitioned to raising bees and grass fed beef and chickens.&nbsp; There are approximately 1,000 acres of active farmland within two miles of the farm, including two farms protected by the state Farmland Preservation Program.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHaving worked the land, cut my firewood from it, raised sheep on it, and hayed it, I have developed a lot of affection for it. I told my kids that my chest was puffed out a little more and when I walked out in the snow, it was nice to know that this land will never be developed. &nbsp;I feel that I\u2019ve kind of kept faith with the land and with the critters on it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2009 Acres: 43 James Scott donated a conservation easement on his family\u2019s 42-acre farm.&nbsp; The entire farm includes prime and statewide important agricultural soils.&nbsp; Purchased by the Scotts in 1979, Vanishing Geese Farm was run as a commercial sheep operation and has transitioned to raising bees and grass [&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-417","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions\/4151"}],"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=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}