{"id":4189,"date":"2017-01-06T20:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?page_id=4189"},"modified":"2017-01-06T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:41:25","slug":"cherry-tree-farm-bethany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/protected-farms\/cherry-tree-farm-bethany\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Tree Farm, Bethany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cherry-Tree-Farm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3656\" src=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cherry-Tree-Farm-300x300.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cherry-Tree-Farm-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cherry-Tree-Farm-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cherry-Tree-Farm-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cherry-Tree-Farm-120x120.png 120w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cherry-Tree-Farm-600x600.png 600w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cherry-Tree-Farm.png 800w\" 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, Town of Bethany, USDA-NRCS<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Year Protected: 2016<\/strong><b><br \/>\nAcres: 132<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Cherry Tree is one of the last remaining farms in Bethany, which was once a thriving agricultural community. The farm has been in the same family for over 150 years. The owners of the property \u2013 widowed sisters-in-law Edyth and Joan Carrington \u2013 were married to Carrington brothers and lived on the farm in the same house where they raised their families. Joan remains on the farm with her son Bob, who raises Belted Galloway cattle.<\/p>\n<p>The Carringtons decided together to permanently protect their family farm. This was Bethany&#8217;s first project protecting farmland, and funding was made possible by the town, United States Department of Agriculture &#8211; Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Connecticut Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, CT Department of Agriculture, Town of Bethany, USDA-NRCS Year Protected: 2016 Acres: 132 Cherry Tree is one of the last remaining farms in Bethany, which was once a thriving agricultural community. The farm has been in the same family for over 150 years. The owners of the property \u2013 widowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":4015,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-4189","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4189","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=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4189\/revisions\/4190"}],"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=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}