{"id":5011,"date":"2020-01-10T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2020-01-10T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:21:41","slug":"wraightfarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wraightfarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Wraight Farm- a farm forever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Year Protected: 2019<\/strong><b><br \/>\nAcres: 37<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>John and Gloria Wraight approached CFT in early 2019 about a plan they wanted to put into action. They wanted to donate their Ellington farm\u2019s development rights and then sell the protected land to a new farmer. <strong>\u201cI called, and we were off to the races,\u201d said John.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within one year, CFT worked with the Wraights\u2019 to determine the terms of an agricultural conservation easement and protect 37 acres of active hay fields, pastureland and woodlands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did John want to preserve the farmland for eternal farm use?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s parents bought 70 acres of farmland on a dirt road with only two houses in 1956. John\u2019s family once raised Hereford cattle and was able to produce eight to ten thousand pheasants a year. The farm began to transition away from pheasants and beef cattle in the 1970s. John has continued to work the land as a hay operation for decades.<\/p>\n<p>During his lifetime John has seen the road that he grew up on change immensely; the road is now paved and trucks and school buses trundle up and down the busy street. <strong>John wanted to make sure his farm would not be targeted for a new subdivision, but instead would remain available as a resource to the next generation of farmers in Ellington.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected by: Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2019 Acres: 37 John and Gloria Wraight approached CFT in early 2019 about a plan they wanted to put into action. They wanted to donate their Ellington farm\u2019s development rights and then sell the protected land to a new farmer. \u201cI called, and we were off to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5014,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}