Re: Farms come and gone

Posted by RBoots on March 20, 2016 at 16:09:18 from (97.32.137.42):

In Reply to: Farms come and gone posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on March 20, 2016 at 14:41:22:

There is a couple round here like that. First was an apple orchard, big one that had been at it since I believe the 1870's. I think it was the third generation son was lazy and couldn't make it like the rest of his family. They sold probably 3/4's of their land to the DNR so as not to lose the little they had left. The hunting ground just west of me is a mix of autumn olives set in an overgrown orchard, the end of the huge orchard they had. Now the 4th generation son has got it going again and seems to be doing really well. He probably wishes his dad hadn't lost all of the other family ground. The other is a mint and maple syrup farm. A buddy of mine his grandpa started it, they own hundreds of acres. Employed a lot of the local high school kids, his grandpa bough all IH equipment and maintained it meticulously. He died while still working the farm. I think that really affected his son who let things slide down hill after that. They had rental houses that people were on a waiting list to get into. Fast forward 30 years and they were so bad they had to tear them down. Now his grandson, my buddy, is trying to get the farm to its former glory, and is doing a good job at it. They have mint, cash crops, beef, maple syrup and vegetables sometimes. Luckily for my buddy, they never had to sell any of their land or the IH tractors his grandpa bought new, even if some of them are now pretty rough. He just does a little at a time, it is getting better slowly, he's doing a good job. I am currently doing a mechanical restoration on an IH 656 hydro that his grandpa bought new.

Ross

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