{"id":405,"date":"2010-07-15T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/farmland-for-food-wildlife-flood-control-air-quality-and-agrotourism.html"},"modified":"2010-07-15T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:39:00","slug":"farmland-for-food-wildlife-flood-control-air-quality-and-agrotourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/farmland-for-food-wildlife-flood-control-air-quality-and-agrotourism.html","title":{"rendered":"Farmland for Food, Wildlife, Flood Control, Air Quality, and Agrotourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/greenliving\/why-saving-farmland-is-so-important.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/dingo.care2.com\/pictures\/greenliving\/1023\/1022738.large.jpg\"><\/a>\nGretchen found this one, too (think I can get her to blog?).\nJudi Gerber writes about\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/greenliving\/why-saving-farmland-is-so-important.html\">\nWhy Saving Farmland Is So Important<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n&#8230;without local farms, there&#8217;s no local food, or, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmland.org\/programs\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">American Farmland Trust (AFT) <\/a> puts it: &#8220;No Farms, No Food.&#8221;.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAnd it&#8217;s not even just food:\n<blockquote>\nFarmland is green space, even though most people don\u2019t think of it that way. It is a significant contributor to environmental quality. As AFT states, \u201cFarm and ranch lands provide food and cover for wildlife, help control flooding, protect wetlands and watersheds, and maintain air quality. They can absorb and filter wastewater and provide groundwater recharge. New energy crops even have the potential to replace fossil fuels.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAnd there&#8217;s more:\n<blockquote>\nFarmland provides fiscal stability to local governments and boosts the economy. It does this by contributing to a community\u2019s infrastructure and helps a local economy through sales, job creation, and support services or businesses.\n<p>\nOne of the most unique of these support services is tourism, or more specifically, agri-tourism. There are plenty of places that people visit to see rural scenery or to enjoy the food or drink of a specific region including the wineries in California\u2019s Napa Valley, or popular farm stays like those found in Italy, and increasingly, here in the United States.\n<\/blockquote>\nThere are some plans afoot about agrotourism in Lowndes County.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gretchen found this one, too (think I can get her to blog?). Judi Gerber writes about Why Saving Farmland Is So Important: &#8230;without local farms, there&#8217;s no local food, or, as the American Farmland Trust (AFT) puts it: &#8220;No Farms, No Food.&#8221;. 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