{"id":57994,"date":"2014-09-17T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=57994"},"modified":"2014-09-16T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T20:58:40","slug":"celebrating-local-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=57994","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Local Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ophead\">Sullivan Free Library news<\/p>\n<p class=\"ophead\"><strong><em>By Karen Fauls-Traynor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">(Chittenango, NY \u2013 Sept. 2014) At 1 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 21, the Sullivan Free Library, 101 Falls Blvd., Chittenango, will host a program: Celebrating Local Agriculture: 7 Trees Dairy Goat Farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">Marva Hogan, co-owner of the farm on Perryville Road in Canastota, will speak about the challenges of running a dairy goat farm and the cheese-making business. She will bring samples of the cheeses they produce and market at local venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">This program is suitable for all ages. There will be a craft activity for children at the end of the talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">This program is part of the Grassroots Read, sponsored by the Mid-York Library System.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">The goal is to bring the community together though reading, learning and discussion of a single topic. This year\u2019s topic combines the traditional and the trendy by exploring the vibrant agricultural community that has long formed a vital part of the economy in the Mid-York service area of Madison, Oneida and Herkimer counties, and the newer phenomenon of the \u201clocalvore,\u201d an individual who endeavors to eat more food that is produced locally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">For more information about the Grassroots read, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midyork.org\/grassroots\" target=\"_blank\">www.midyork.org\/grassroots<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sullivan Free Library news By Karen Fauls-Traynor (Chittenango, NY \u2013 Sept. 2014) At 1 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 21, the Sullivan Free Library, 101 Falls Blvd., Chittenango, will host a program: Celebrating Local Agriculture: 7 Trees Dairy Goat Farm. Marva Hogan, co-owner of the farm on Perryville Road in Canastota, will speak about the challenges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming","category-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-f5o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}