{"id":28713,"date":"2019-09-24T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=28713"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:32:31","slug":"unique-urban-farm-property-in-montgomery-county-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/24\/unique-urban-farm-property-in-montgomery-county-protected\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Urban Farm Property in Montgomery County Protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conservation Easement Preserves Green Space<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48750421326_c7a5b27ec7.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of herb garden in downtown Silver Spring\" width=\"351\" height=\"264\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/met\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Environmental Trust<\/a>, a unit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>, partnered with the Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming Inc. to complete a conservation easement protecting green space in downtown Silver Spring. The one-acre property is home to Koiner Farm, an urban agricultural and educational enterprise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Environmental Trust holds the property along with the land trust CKC Farming, conceived by Lynn Koiner, whose father Charles owned and operated the property for 40 years until his death in January. The active farm grows and sells produce, and also provides agricultural education opportunities for the next generation of sustainable food innovators.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFive hundred years from now, I want my farm to still be here,\u201d Lynn Koiner said. The easement will both preserve the property as urban open space and permit CKC Farming\u2019s continued agricultural and educational uses of the farm. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are grateful for a local land trust partner like CKC Farming to help us protect this open space gem in the heart of downtown Silver Spring,\u201d Maryland Environmental Trust Acting Director John Turgeon said. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservation Easement Preserves Green Space Maryland Environmental Trust, a unit of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, partnered with the Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming Inc. to complete a conservation easement protecting green space in downtown Silver Spring. The one-acre property is home to Koiner Farm, an urban agricultural and educational enterprise.\u00a0 Maryland Environmental<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/24\/unique-urban-farm-property-in-montgomery-county-protected\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,23],"tags":[5024,4139,3147,2907,3704],"class_list":["post-28713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-land","tag-charles-koiner-center-for-urban-farming-inc","tag-conservation-easement","tag-maryland-environmental-trust","tag-montgomery-county","tag-silver-spring"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28717,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28713\/revisions\/28717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}