{"id":361,"date":"2017-10-05T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nittanyvalleywatercoalition.org\/?p=361"},"modified":"2017-10-05T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:22:38","slug":"nvwc-welcomes-winter-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/nvwc-welcomes-winter-wheat\/","title":{"rendered":"NVWC Welcomes Winter Wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Press Release from Nittany Valley Water Coalition:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today was a dark day for town-gown relationships when Penn State called the Ferguson Township Police to evict community members who have been staging a 124-day long occupation at the Toll Brothers proposed development of the Cottages on Whitehall Road and Blue Course Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The Nittany Valley Water Coalition is committed to protecting the wells that supply two-thirds\u00a0of State College\u2019s water.<\/p>\n<p>These wells are beside the proposed development site and are connected to the site by subsurface water flow and an intermittent stream.<\/p>\n<p>Although we are saddened that Penn State chose to evict us by sending the local police force, we are happy for the land\u2019s short term future.<\/p>\n<p>We have learned that our camp will be sown with winter wheat which will not be harvested until next June! The power of soil to act as a natural filter leading to recharging of the wells with clean water is well known.<\/p>\n<p>So, while we are sad to have been denied our First\u00a0Amendment rights, we are happy with farming. We hope that Penn State, a Land Grant school, will realize that the future of this site is better as farming and not as hundreds of luxury cottages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release from Nittany Valley Water Coalition: Today was a dark day for town-gown relationships when Penn State called the Ferguson Township Police to evict community members who have been staging a 124-day long occupation at the Toll Brothers proposed development of the Cottages on Whitehall Road and Blue Course Drive. The Nittany Valley Water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/nvwc-welcomes-winter-wheat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NVWC Welcomes Winter Wheat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NLTc-5P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}