{"id":23007,"date":"2021-11-12T14:53:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=23007"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:53:35","slug":"blair-county-conservation-district-hosts-fallfest-at-natureworkspark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=23007","title":{"rendered":"Blair County Conservation District Hosts Fallfest at NatureWorksPark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blair-Fallfest-at-NWPsmaller-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blair-Fallfest-at-NWPsmaller-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23008\" width=\"451\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blair-Fallfest-at-NWPsmaller-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blair-Fallfest-at-NWPsmaller-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blair-Fallfest-at-NWPsmaller-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blair-Fallfest-at-NWPsmaller-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blair-Fallfest-at-NWPsmaller-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Master Gardeners and the Penn State Extension share a tent as they greet visitors at the NatureWorksPark Fallfest. The Master Gardeners sold pumpkins and live plants at the event. Photo taken by Dan Sinal.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blair County Conservation District hosted its first annual &#8220;NatureWorksPark Fallfest&#8221; on October 16, 2021. The event aimed to be an immersive educational experience for the entire family and was planned after receiving a 2021 PA Department of Agriculture &#8211; Urban Agriculture Infrastructure Grant. Urban agriculture was the theme for the event, which saw a dozen related vendors meet and greet guests at the district-owned park in Hollidaysburg, PA. Vendors included local businesses and farms such as Innovative Extracts (Portage), specializing in farm-to-table CBD, and Gahagan Farms (Williamsburg), which grows over 50 varieties of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to vendors, the event also featured pumpkin painting, live animals, and the Blair County Dairy Princess. Retired educators Jean Sinal and Jody Wallace brought reptiles and a chicken to teach guests about native species and raising backyard chickens. The district aims to make this a regular event with an annually rotating theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blair County Conservation District hosted its first annual &#8220;NatureWorksPark Fallfest&#8221; on October 16, 2021. The event aimed to be an immersive educational experience for the entire family and was planned after receiving a 2021 PA Department of Agriculture &#8211; Urban Agriculture Infrastructure Grant. Urban agriculture was the theme for the event, which saw a [&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-23007","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\/23007","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=23007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}