{"id":19168,"date":"2019-06-20T19:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19168"},"modified":"2019-06-20T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:28:29","slug":"ribbon-cutting-held-in-luzerne-county-for-325000-growing-greener-grant-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19168","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon Cutting Held in Luzerne County for $325,000 Growing Greener Grant Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted by Jennifer Lauri, Conservation Specialist, Luzerne Conservation District<\/em><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LuzerneBarnProject-883x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19169\" width=\"196\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LuzerneBarnProject-883x1024.jpg 883w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LuzerneBarnProject-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LuzerneBarnProject-768x891.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Photo provided by Luzerne Conservation District. <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday June 8, 2019, The Lands at\nHillside Farms held an official unveiling and ribbon cutting ceremony for the\nnew Dr. Doug Ayers Dairy Barn, a two-year project. Amy Brown, formerly with the\nLuzerne Conservation District (now Program Manager at PACD) originally approached\nthe farm with an idea for a Growing Greener Grant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community, donors, conservation district\nstaff, staff from The Lands at Hillside Farms, and members of the press\ngathered on June 8. Attendees toured the new 15,000 square foot facility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lands at Hillside Farms has worked with\nthe Luzerne Conservation District in the past to plant hundreds of trees along\nthe stream on the farm. The farm has also installed a rain garden, a green\nparking lot to reduce the amount of impervious surface, and bird boxes all\naround the property to control the pests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total contribution from the Luzerne\nConservation District, through a DEP Growing Greener Grant, was $325,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LuzerneHillside.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a> to read the entire article.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Jennifer Lauri, Conservation Specialist, Luzerne Conservation District On Saturday June 8, 2019, The Lands at Hillside Farms held an official unveiling and ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Dr. Doug Ayers Dairy Barn, a two-year project. Amy Brown, formerly with the Luzerne Conservation District (now Program Manager at PACD) originally approached the farm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}