[Homestead] Question about the Amish
Gene GeRue
genegerue at ruralize.com
Sun Mar 2 09:41:02 EST 2008
On Mar 1, 2008, at 7:02 PM, paxamicus at earthlink.net wrote:
> i've found a couple of towns that have a lot of what I like and in two
> of them I am seeing a number of Amish farms on the market.
>
> What would make the Amish sell up? Gentrification? Taxes? Water
> supply? Neighbour issues? How do you think I could find out?
Again, you appear to be resistant to direct contact.
I was once contacted by an agent for the Amish. They were looking for
a very large parcel to start a new community. What happens to them is
that fathers split the family farm up into pieces for each son. Two or
three generations of such splitting and they no longer have large
enough individual farms for a couple to make a living.
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