{"id":5401,"date":"2020-10-08T18:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T22:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2020-10-08T18:19:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T22:19:03","slug":"geerfarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/geerfarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Geer Farm is Protected Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Protected by: U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), CT Department of Agriculture, <\/strong>Town of Lebanon, and<strong> Connecticut Farmland Trust<br>Year Protected: 2020<\/strong><b><br>Acres: <\/b>96<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The 96-acre Geer Farm was protected in the early fall of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Geer family is pleased to preserve the farmland that has been in our family for nearly 200 years for agricultural uses,\u201d said Linda Heatherly, owner of Geer Farm. \u201c2020 has served as a reminder of the importance of agriculture in our nation\u2019s food supply, and we are honored to join several surrounding farms throughout Lebanon in Connecticut\u2019s farmland preservation program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geer\nFarm is leased by Cushman Farms, a partner in The Farmer\u2019s Cow, which uses the\nland for hay and corn to feed its herd of dairy cows. The farm joins a wealth\nof protected farms in Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geer Farm was protected in a joint effort by partners Connecticut Department of Agriculture, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Services (USDA-NRCS), the Town of Lebanon, and CFT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Posted October 8, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected by: U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), CT Department of Agriculture, Town of Lebanon, and Connecticut Farmland TrustYear Protected: 2020Acres: 96 The 96-acre Geer Farm was protected in the early fall of 2020. \u201cThe Geer family is pleased to preserve the farmland that has been in our family for nearly 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5405,"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-5401","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\/5401","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=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}