{"id":19306,"date":"2019-07-19T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19306"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:48:20","slug":"five-pennsylvania-farms-receive-clean-water-farm-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19306","title":{"rendered":"Five Pennsylvania Farms Receive Clean Water Farm Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MartinFarm1-1024x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19307\" width=\"449\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MartinFarm1-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MartinFarm1-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MartinFarm1-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MartinFarm1.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><figcaption> <em>The Martin Family receives the Pennsylvania Clean Water Farm Award on July 17 at the PACD\/SCC Joint Annual Conference in Williamsport. Left to right are: Dr. Robert Shannon, PACD North Central Region Director; Greg Hostetter, Deputy Secretary of the PA Department of Agriculture; Josh and Brandi Martin, award recipients; Charles Duritsa, PACD President; Aneca Atkinson, Deputy Secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection, and Brenda Shambaugh, PACD Executive Director. <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nPennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. (PACD) in conjunction\nwith the award sponsor, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection\n(DEP), presented the operators of five farms with the Clean Water Farm Award\nduring its annual conference on July 17, 2019 in Williamsport, PA. The honor is\nawarded annually to farmers who manage their daily farm operations in an\nenvironmentally conscious manner that helps to protect Pennsylvania\u2019s water\nquality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DEP\nhas sponsored this award for the past thirty-three years. Recipients receive a\ncertificate signed by the DEP Secretary and a large Clean Water Farm Award sign\nto erect on their property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This\nyear\u2019s award recipients are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Snider\nHomestead Farm (Bedford County)<\/li><li>Hard\nEarned Acres, Bob and Barb Keefer (Cumberland County)<\/li><li>Martin\nFarms, Josh &amp; Brandi Martin and Robert &amp; Patsy Martin (Franklin County)<\/li><li>Iams\nFarm (Washington County)<\/li><li>Belview\nValley Farms LLC, Eric Gemmill (York County)<\/li><\/ul>\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\/07\/DEPlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19308\" width=\"253\" height=\"53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DEPlogo-768x162.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Financial support for\nthis award is provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental\nProtection through the Chesapeake Bay Regulatory and Accountability Program and\nthe&nbsp;Pennsylvania Chesapeake Bay Education Office (administered by the\nPennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.). <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CWFA-Press-Release-2019-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a> for the entire press release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. (PACD) in conjunction with the award sponsor, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), presented the operators of five farms with the Clean Water Farm Award during its annual conference on July 17, 2019 in Williamsport, PA. The honor is awarded annually to farmers who manage their daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306","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=19306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}