{"id":380,"date":"2012-10-10T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=380"},"modified":"2012-10-10T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T14:32:05","slug":"thayer-77-preserves-farmland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2012\/10\/10\/thayer-77-preserves-farmland\/","title":{"rendered":"Thayer &#8217;77 Preserves Farmland"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2012\/10\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-381\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2012\/10\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Kevin Gutting, Daily Hampshire Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another Williston Northampton family appeared on the cover of the <em>Daily Hampshire Gazette<\/em> today!<\/p>\n<p>Richard Thayer, Jr. \u201977 P\u201905 \u201908 has conserved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/home\/2262051-95\/hadley-thayer-trust-kestrel\">38 acres of farmland<\/a> off Hocakanum Road in Hadley, parts of which have been in his family since 1747.\u00a0 Amherst-based <a href=\"http:\/\/kestreltrust.org\/\">Kestrel Land Trust<\/a> will maintain the land under an Agricultural Preservation Restriction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel the land was given to us and we are the caretakers,\u201d said Thayer. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to feel that this prime farmland will stay in agriculture forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis move protects the Thayer farm for future generations,\u201d said Kristin DeBoer, executive director of the Kestrel Land Trust. \u201cAnd it could help to inspire other landowners in Hadley and South Hadley to look at the historic landscape value of their properties, because the grant provides cash incentives to conserve woodlands and farmland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Williston Northampton family appeared on the cover of the Daily Hampshire Gazette today! Richard Thayer, Jr. \u201977 P\u201905 \u201908 has conserved 38 acres of farmland off Hocakanum Road in Hadley, parts of which have been in his family since 1747.\u00a0 Amherst-based Kestrel Land Trust will maintain the land under an Agricultural Preservation Restriction. \u201cWe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2012\/10\/10\/thayer-77-preserves-farmland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thayer &#8217;77 Preserves Farmland<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}