{"id":429,"date":"2013-05-14T16:06:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T16:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?page_id=429"},"modified":"2017-01-06T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:08:37","slug":"skaats-farm-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/protected-farms\/skaats-farm-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Skaats Farm, Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Skaats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4042\" src=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Skaats-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Skaats-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Skaats-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Skaats-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Skaats.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, Town of Lebanon, USDA-NRCS<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Year Protected: 2011<\/strong><b><br \/>\nAcres: 32<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Similar to a number of Connecticut Farmland Trust\u2019s project, Skaats Farm is too small to qualify for the state\u2019s Farmland Preservation Program.&nbsp; While relatively small, Skaats Farm \u2013 and others like it \u2013 is an important part of the agriculture community in Lebanon and other small towns.&nbsp; The farm includes more than 90% prime and important agricultural soils and is within approximately 1,500 acres of active farmland, 860 of which are permanently protected.&nbsp; Cyr Farm is leased for corn production to nearby Cushman Farms, a member of The Farmer\u2019s Cow dairy group.&nbsp; It is the 5<sup>th<\/sup> farm protected in the town of Lebanon by CFT.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase of an easement on the farm was funded by the USDA\/Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Town of Lebanon and CFT&#8217;s Acquisition Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The farm is privately owned and is not open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust, Town of Lebanon, USDA-NRCS Year Protected: 2011 Acres: 32 Similar to a number of Connecticut Farmland Trust\u2019s project, Skaats Farm is too small to qualify for the state\u2019s Farmland Preservation Program.&nbsp; While relatively small, Skaats Farm \u2013 and others like it \u2013 is an important part of the agriculture community [&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-429","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429\/revisions\/4168"}],"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=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}