{"id":26140,"date":"2024-05-09T18:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26140"},"modified":"2024-05-09T18:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:16:38","slug":"montgomery-county-conservation-district-holds-tour-of-food-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26140","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County Conservation District Holds Tour of \u201cFood Forest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26141\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26141\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26141\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MontgomeryFoodForestTour-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MontgomeryFoodForestTour-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MontgomeryFoodForestTour.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tour of a Riparian Buffer \u201cFood Forest\u201d at Martha\u2019s Community Farm photo provided by Montgomery County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>On April 20, 2024, Montgomery County Conservation District&#8217;s Watershed Specialist Brian Vadino worked in partnership with Martha&#8217;s Choice Marketplace and Community Farm and Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Program in Montgomery County to host a tour of a riparian buffer food forest planting project that was completed at the Farm along Perkiomen Creek in Fall 2022.<\/p>\r\n<p>The riparian buffer tour was designed to showcase the completed project and was delivered in conjunction with a public tour of other planting areas (gardens and greenhouses) located at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthaschoicemarketplace.com\/community-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martha\u2019s Choice Marketplace and Community Farm<\/a>. The Farm is the largest food pantry in Montgomery County, serving almost 20,000 individuals and delivering 1.5 million pounds of food every year.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/836725314964348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to view a short video about the event.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24933 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 69px) 100vw, 69px\" \/>Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 20, 2024, Montgomery County Conservation District&#8217;s Watershed Specialist Brian Vadino worked in partnership with Martha&#8217;s Choice Marketplace and Community Farm and Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Program in Montgomery County to host a tour of a riparian buffer food forest planting project that was completed at the Farm along Perkiomen Creek in Fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26140","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=26140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}