{"id":4862,"date":"2019-05-31T11:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:53:35","slug":"bristolsfarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/bristolsfarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol&#8217;s Farm of Canton Protected Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Protected by: CT Department of Agriculture, Town of Canton, Canton Land Conservation Trust, and Connecticut Farmland Trust<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Year Protected: 2019<\/strong><b><br \/>\nAcres: 27<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>In partnership with the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, the Town of Canton, and Canton Land Conservation Trust, we have jointly preserved 27 acres of prime farmland on Bristol&#8217;s Farm in Canton.<\/p>\n<p>It took 16 family members 20 years to preserve their family&#8217;s farm. And 2019 is the year it all came together.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Bristol, a fourth-generation owner of the farm said, \u201cThe biggest thing is the family is all on board&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The property has been farmed by the Bristol family since 1888. Dan\u2019s son, Josh Bristol, is the family\u2019s fifth-generation farmer and runs the operation, which grows berries, sweet corn, flowers, and a wide variety of vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>The farm focuses on sustainable agriculture practices, using natural and organic pest control methods and no herbicides or GMO crops.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Bristol&#8217;s farm market in person during the warm months. Find more online at bristolsfarmmarket.com and on their Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected by: CT Department of Agriculture, Town of Canton, Canton Land Conservation Trust, and Connecticut Farmland Trust Year Protected: 2019 Acres: 27 In partnership with the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, the Town of Canton, and Canton Land Conservation Trust, we have jointly preserved 27 acres of prime farmland on Bristol&#8217;s Farm in Canton. It took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4863,"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-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctfarmland.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}