{"id":21887,"date":"2002-03-02T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-02T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=21887"},"modified":"2018-03-02T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:12:55","slug":"2002-william-jean-knill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/mda-hall-of-fame\/2002\/03\/02\/2002-william-jean-knill\/","title":{"rendered":"2002: William &amp; Jean Knill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21888\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/William-Jean-Knill.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21888\" data-attachment-id=\"21888\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/william-jean-knill\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/William-Jean-Knill.jpg?fit=768%2C564&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,564\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"William &amp;amp; Jean Knill\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Credit: Executive Office of the Governor &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/William-Jean-Knill.jpg?fit=760%2C558&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21888\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/William-Jean-Knill.jpg?resize=760%2C558\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/William-Jean-Knill.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/William-Jean-Knill.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Executive Office of the Governor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Family Name:<\/strong> The Knill Family<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Jean Knill own and operate Knill\u2019s Farm Market, a 700-acre livestock, grain and fresh produce farm in Carroll County. Their farm incorporates crop rotation, no-till cultivation, grassed waterways, strip cropping and integrated pest management. The Knills extended the season for fresh fruits and vegetables by utilizing rain gutters to hold the media in which the plants grow in their greenhouse. Bill has served as president and vice-president of both the Carroll County and Maryland Farm Bureaus, president of the Carroll County Agricultural Commission, and as a member of the Carroll County Economic Development Commission and numerous other committees. Jean chaired the Carroll County Agriculture in the Classroom committee for 15 years and serves on the board of directors of the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation and on both the Maryland and Carroll County Farm Bureau women\u2019s committees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ceremony Date:\u00a0<\/strong>2\/6\/03<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Name: The Knill Family Bill and Jean Knill own and operate Knill\u2019s Farm Market, a 700-acre livestock, grain and fresh produce farm in Carroll County. Their farm incorporates crop rotation, no-till cultivation, grassed waterways, strip cropping and integrated pest management. The Knills extended the season for fresh fruits and vegetables by utilizing rain gutters<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/mda-hall-of-fame\/2002\/03\/02\/2002-william-jean-knill\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mda-hall-of-fame"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21889,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887\/revisions\/21889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}