{"id":5617,"date":"2021-12-01T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?page_id=5617"},"modified":"2022-11-14T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:29:33","slug":"oakridgedairy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/protected-farms\/oakridgedairy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahler Oakridge Dairy Farm, Ellington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"924\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Oakridge-Dairy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Oakridge-Dairy.png 924w, https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Oakridge-Dairy-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Oakridge-Dairy-768x568.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Protected by: <\/strong><strong>U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), CT Department of Agriculture, Town of Ellington, <\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Connecticut Farmland Trust<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Year Protected: 2021<\/strong><b><br><\/b><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><b>Acres: 51.82<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oakridge Dairy is Connecticut&#8217;s largest dairy operation. Founded in the late 1890\u2019s, the family\/owners have been farming for over 5 generations. The easement sale is helping the Bahler family plan to support farming operations for future generations; to preserve open space; to allow the purchase of additional farmland; and to construct additional infrastructure to support operations like a future anaerobic digestion operation, tour center, processing plant for dairy products, etc.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","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 Ellington, and&nbsp;Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2021 Acres: 51.82 &nbsp; Oakridge Dairy is Connecticut&#8217;s largest dairy operation. Founded in the late 1890\u2019s, the family\/owners have been farming for over 5 generations. The easement sale is helping the Bahler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-5617","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5617\/revisions\/6031"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}