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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clappy who wrote (3461)	1/3/2006 11:48:22 PM
From: Bill on the Hill	Respond to of 24225

My grandfather and father bought our wheat farm in the spring of 1949 after my dad was home a few years from the maritimes. They bought it and incorporated it a few years after they began farming it. Grandfather always liked to buy things and incorporate them. He liked trusts as well. And small shares in little oil companies were his gifts at Christmas time. The farm ended up the gift my grandfather and father passed down to my sisters and I. It is the center of many of my childhood memories. It is where I learned the work ethic that I still practice. It is where I learned to love nature and respect its force and appreciate its beauty. It is where I learned to grow things. I am made up from the windblown sand of the Colorado plains. It's sun baked me into who I am today. It's winds made me think of far away things. The farm is still a Colorado corporation. Closely held by family members. And making a profit every year. Not much, but for over fifty years to be paying taxes and growing food. For the world to eat. What happens if we quit? And just walk away...... from the agri-industry.. take it back to what it was. sustainable. btw: the land is free and clear.