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Oh, I'm not anti-direct contact. I could chat you off your feet.

If I were standing in front of someone who would know, I'd ask. But  
from Virginia it's a little harder.

I did a lot of dealing with a Mennonite community for hay and  
construction on the farm and I love working with
them.

I was just kind of speculating, that's all.

Where else was I resistant to direct contact? I'm sorry, it's been a  
busy  week here. I'm a little slow.

Cheers!


On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:

> 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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