{"id":5345,"date":"2019-10-05T10:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T15:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2019-10-07T03:57:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T08:57:23","slug":"century-old-farms-honored-in-alton-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/lifestyle\/family\/century-old-farms-honored-in-alton-missouri-20191005","title":{"rendered":"Century Old Farms Honored In Alton, Missouri at Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>Right around the noon hour, the 34th Annual Black Gold Walnut Festival took time to honor century-old farms that have been in the same family. This year there were four farms recognized.<\/p>\n<p>In order to qualify, the farm needs to be held by the same family, or family members, for one hundred years. These families were invited up to the stage to be recognized. The four families were:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garrison Farms,<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5354\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5354 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/century-farm-mo-7007167-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Garrison Farms Is A Century Farm\" width=\"625\" height=\"324\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrison Family Farm members receive the &#8220;Century Farm&#8221; recognition at the 2019 Walnut festival in Alton, MO for staying in the same family for over 100 years. The Garrison Farm was established in 1896.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clausing\/Smith,<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5356\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5356 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/century-farm-mo-7007164-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Clausing-Smith Farms Is A Century Farm\" width=\"625\" height=\"324\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clausing-Smith Family Farm members receive the \u201cCentury Farm\u201d recognition at the 2019 Walnut festival in Alton, MO for staying in the same family for over 100 years. The Clausing-Smith Farm was established in 1918.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henry and Bertha Olbricht,<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5357\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5357 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/century-farm-mo-7007162-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Henry &amp; Bertha Olbricht Farms Is A Century Farm\" width=\"625\" height=\"324\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry &amp; Bertha Olbricht Family Farm members receive the \u201cCentury Farm\u201d recognition at the 2019 Walnut festival in Alton, MO for staying in the same family for over 100 years. The Henry &amp; Bertha Olbricht Farm was established in 1911.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and <strong>Van B. Garrison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5359\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5359 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/century-farm-mo-7007160-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Van B. Garrison Farms Is A Century Farm\" width=\"625\" height=\"324\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van B. Garrison Family Farm members receive the \u201cCentury Farm\u201d recognition at the 2019 Walnut festival in Alton, MO for staying in the same family for over 100 years. The Van B. Garrison Farm was established in 1918.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right around the noon hour, the Walnut Festival honored century-old farms that were in Oregon County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[229,250,214,201,264,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}