Re: Closing in on us

Posted by Indydirtfarmer on August 26, 2003 at 05:16:05 from (66.83.236.250):

In Reply to: Closing in on us posted by Bring back the country, o on August 21, 2003 at 14:00:03:

This story has repeated itself hundreds of times throughout history. (I bet the American Indians said the same exact thing)
I grew up on a farm. It was my fathers, and my grandfathers. I grew up and left the farm for a "better future". My father stopped farming in the early 90's. He leased the ground out, untill his death in 2000.
My wifes father was much the same story.
About 10 years ago, I decided that the "good life" I went searching for was an illusion. I had it and didn't even know it. We bought 17 acres not too far from where I grew up. The neigbor (hog farm) was so defensive about me building a house near his operation, that he fought me getting building permits.
The economy took care of that. He went out of business two summers later.
I started with a couple barns and a house. Then I rented 124 acres directly across from our house. Then my father-in-law passed away. We were named as trustee's on the family farm. We farm it, and send a monthly check to my mother-in-law. When she passes, the land will go to my wife, and her brother, who is content to let us continue to farm it.
Then my father passed away. He left us with the farm. All mine.
With our original 17 acres, the 124 I rent, the 510 of my in-laws, and my fathers farm of 688, we now have 1339. In a few days, we will close on what will become the Home Farm. We are building a new house, and will rent the old one to a hired hand. It is 194 acres. This will give us a total of 1543 acres. All started from that original 17.
That is not to say that everyone that moves into your neighborhood will become a successful farmer.....But it does say that when someone moves to the country, it's usually becouse they love it just as much as you do. They are just in a different life than you, and they get their dose of "country living" a little different than you or me.
I think back to the opposition that we recieved when I first started to build. The farmer that tried to block us did it becouse he thought that we were not what the area needed. As it turned out, what me and my wife have accomplished, is exactly what he was trying to protect.
Things will never be like they used to.

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