Trying to balance the need/desire for housing and farm land is difficult for a family of our size and more importantly in this economy. It is so frustrating to see beautiful farms being subdivided or being sold for millions of dollars. How does our nation expect to allow wannabe farmers to start farming when the price of good farmland is so prohibitive these days. I believe the wave of the future may be farming many small plots of land, ie 20 acres that you live on, another 20 close by, 20 or 30 down the road, leasing more within 10 minutes away, etc... I think the days of new large farms may come to an end - those who have been blessed with inheriting a large farm will hopefully hold on to the land and continue to use it or new farmers will go heavily into debt which then takes the fun of farming away. Greg Judy's books on leasing farm land is quite good and is probably they way we will go if we ever choose to farm on a larger scale.
On a different note, I finished Eric and Leslie Ludy's book, "Meet Mr. Smith". It was excellent - one of the best I have read on this subject.
Tonight I have my first "Great Books" class meeting and I am also excited that Steve has signed me up for "Evenings with Victoria" -an online mentoring session with Victoria Botkin. Steve is enjoying her husband Geoffrey Botkins online mentoring session on Saturday mornings - there family is a true inspiration.
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