{"id":1795,"date":"2008-09-26T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2008-09-26T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T00:20:18","slug":"buck-run-land-cattle-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck Run Land &#038; Cattle Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen and Bill Elkins bought 350 Acres in 1985, a portion of what the Brandywine Conservancy helped to preserve as the largest piece of independently owned land at that time, in Coatesville. Bill is a retired medical scientist from U of Penn and became interested in the health benefits of pasture raised beef. No hormones or antibiotics are used on their 110 head of cattle. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BuckRunFarm.com\" target=\"_blank\">Buck Run&#8217;s<\/a> 1840&#8217;s stone barn and main house are well preserved and a 2000 gallon cistern provides gravity fed water for the animals. He has established a riparian buffer on Buck Run Creek which runs through his land. The Elkins sell to Greensgrow, White Dog, Pete&#8217;s Produce and several other CSA&#8217;s and restaurants nearby.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1795 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/barn1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barn1-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/house\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/house-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/stream\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stream-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/cattle\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cattle-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/bill1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bill1-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/flowersjeanne\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/flowersjeanne-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/bull\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bull-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/view\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/view-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/helen\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/helen-50x50.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen and Bill Elkins bought 350 Acres in 1985, a portion of what the Brandywine Conservancy helped to preserve as the largest piece of independently owned land at that time, in Coatesville. Bill is a retired medical scientist from U &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/buck-run-land-cattle-company\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-farms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}