{"id":371,"date":"2011-06-08T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/?p=371"},"modified":"2012-03-02T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:19:19","slug":"scientist-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/2011\/06\/08\/scientist-returns-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Returns Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_373\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-373\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/06\/paul-lehman-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Paul S. Lehman\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul S. Lehman prunes a tree; in the background is his childhood home.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before his retirement, <strong>Paul S. Lehman \u201963, PhD<\/strong> (plant pathology), spent decades as a government-employed research scientist, mainly focused on excluding pests and diseases through phytosanitary practices rather than by chemical means. Today, however, his research focuses on his backyard. <strong>Mary Ellen \u201962<\/strong> and Paul Lehman have retired to farmland in the Laurel Highlands of western Pennsylvania that has been in Paul\u2019s family for more than 150 years. They are now investigating ways to maintain the land, in part, as a preserve for wildlife and, in part, as a source of sustenance for their descendants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to make an investment for future generations by establishing an orchard with disease-resistant trees that can be managed with organic practices,\u201d Paul says. \u201cWe planted an area of blueberries because this was most likely another sustainable crop that can be managed organically and which is adapted for our area based on the fact that blueberries which were planted on a neighbor\u2019s farm 50 years ago are still producing. We planted new grape vines from the stock that have continuously produced since the time that my grandparents were married in 1887.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before his retirement, Paul S. Lehman \u201963, PhD (plant pathology), spent decades as a government-employed research scientist, mainly focused on excluding pests and diseases through phytosanitary practices rather than by chemical means. Today, however, his research focuses on his backyard. Mary Ellen \u201962 and Paul Lehman have retired to farmland in the Laurel Highlands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[136,160,183],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","category-spring-2011","tag-mary-ellen","tag-paul-s-lehman","tag-sustainability","issues-spring-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}