Good luck with that. If your parents quit farming and your grandparents sold the land (split among your aunts and uncles), you can't possibly afford to get back into it. Plus you don't have nearly enough knowledge of farming to farm. You pretty much have to be born into it.
That's been my experience as a city kid who lives in farm country now. There are no new farmers. Just very wealthy multi-generational ones.
My uncle and his son still farm, just like all our ancestors before them. Alfalfa and beef cows. Seems so idyllic to me, a suburbanite from birth. So I asked my cousin what it’s like being a farmer, and he said, “It’s lonely, miserable, and you don’t make any fucking money.”
Good luck with that. If your parents quit farming and your grandparents sold the land (split among your aunts and uncles), you can't possibly afford to get back into it. Plus you don't have nearly enough knowledge of farming to farm. You pretty much have to be born into it.
That's been my experience as a city kid who lives in farm country now. There are no new farmers. Just very wealthy multi-generational ones.
Yup. That kind of information and skill is almost entirely passed down through generations.
My uncle and his son still farm, just like all our ancestors before them. Alfalfa and beef cows. Seems so idyllic to me, a suburbanite from birth. So I asked my cousin what it’s like being a farmer, and he said, “It’s lonely, miserable, and you don’t make any fucking money.”