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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

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.