You left out “ and die happy”!Man - I wish someone would go video my folks' farm. 100% organic produce + 40 acres of organic grain / hay production + chicken & eggs + heritage beef.
My folks are definitely of retirement age - yet he just keeps doing more & more & more and wearing himself ragged. He's gonna keel over on the tractor one day and that'll be that.
Anyhow: I think a well-produced video or two highlighting the property would be an amazing A) Tribute and B ) a way to potentially find a buyer.
My neighbor makes some kick a$$ hot jerky. He's been spending his days down on his property near Martinsville since bow season started. I don't think he's harvested one yet...Jerky and summer sausage make my mouth water.
The real issue is when Dad/Gramps passes the kids only want to split up and sell off the farm and take the money. So very few want that kind of workload and responsibility's.Good video, and good for him for being able to live out what is seemingly a dream for him. We all should be so lucky. And he`s right-the family farms, small farms, are vanishing and that is a threat and a danger to us all.
Teach, your grandchildren well, Their grandfather's hell, Did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams.....The real issue is when Dad/Gramps passes the kids only want to split up and sell off the farm and take the money. So very few want that kind of workload and responsibility's.
I'd love to be able to afford to "take over" my folks' place. But I/we can't.The real issue is when Dad/Gramps passes the kids only want to split up and sell off the farm and take the money. So very few want that kind of workload and responsibility's.
Dang. My step-dad needs about that much new fencing, too.I found out what I am getting for Christmas. A half mile of new fence!
I put in the existing fence over 20 years ago myself. No easy task down here in unglaciated territory. Some had to be punched through limestone lenses 12" thick with a spud bar. I cut the cedar posts out of my woods and drug them out with my draft horse 'Michelob'.
An Ash tree next to the fence was struck by lightning years ago and went down the tree, through the lateral roots, up a post and into the wires which blew out the staples 4-5 posts both directions. This destroyed the tensile and the galvanizing to the whole fence. The sod that was over the root was laid over like you went through with a plow and the cedar post looked like a sliced pie from the top. The tree actually survived only to be killed by Ash Borers just recently.
Deer and neighbors cows did the rest, now the posts are 'staple dead' and the wire is looking rough. We are having the Amish make this one. The grandson of the neighbor I had at the time of the last build has the farm now. I am too old and decrepit, he is working 7 days a week.
On a brighter note I am saving all the old posts to 'rick up' in my woods as rabbit habitat...
Yes.That said: Anyone want to buy a 50-ish acre certified organic farm in west central Indiana?
You can bet on that. Out where we live, the "town council" and zoning board are basically rubber stamps for whatever Godawful project their developer buddies have in mind. No matter what objections are brought up (adding a single exit for four hundred some odd houses onto a two lane road), they're pooh-poohed and the development is greenlighted.Somehow I feel this isn't over as I'm most certain a counterattack is in the works.