{"id":2427,"date":"2024-01-22T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2024-01-22T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:33:32","slug":"farmland-once-its-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/farmland-once-its-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmland, once it&#8217;s gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/19\/business\/economy\/flannery-california-forever-solano.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">story in The NY Times<\/a> about a secret plan to buy up a farming community 1 hour outside of San Francisco for development of a new town is numbing.   This is a purported solution to the housing crisis in the Golden State.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something similar almost happened here in Vermont when an out-of-the-mainstream LDS [church did not support this] millionaire (billionaire?) started to buy up farms and property around the Joseph Smith birthplace to establish is utopian (I would say dystopian) vision of a 40,000 person new city.  Feisty and enterprising locals (and clever land attorneys) stopped him when they found out what he was doing.  Vermont knows how to be hostile to development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was even more money at stake in California and tech titans funding it.  The mob doesn&#8217;t like to loose its money, and sadly, the bad guys won in California.  Farmland premiums and developer bullying were too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The-Farmers-Had-What-the-Billionaires-Wanted-The-New-York-Times-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of The-Farmers-Had-What-the-Billionaires-Wanted-The-New-York-Times-1.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1bdaa70c-86d9-47ee-83bb-cb1263dd29c2\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The-Farmers-Had-What-the-Billionaires-Wanted-The-New-York-Times-1.pdf\">The-Farmers-Had-What-the-Billionaires-Wanted-The-New-York-Times-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The-Farmers-Had-What-the-Billionaires-Wanted-The-New-York-Times-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1bdaa70c-86d9-47ee-83bb-cb1263dd29c2\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story in The NY Times about a secret plan to buy up a farming community 1 hour outside of San Francisco for development of a new town is numbing. This is a purported solution to the housing crisis in the Golden State. Something similar almost happened here in Vermont when an out-of-the-mainstream LDS [church<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/farmland-once-its-gone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Farmland, once it&#8217;s gone&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}