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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:27 AM, sjc wrote:

> I deliberately chose marginal land (rocky, steep, requiring hard  
> labor to exploit it
> even for gardening, much less farming), knowing that it, while always
> being reliable to support us, would never hold value to those whose
> purpose was to make/have money, but it has provided a rich living for
> me, and for my kids while they were still home.

A wise decision. I have long advised just that. Such land is low- 
priced, low-taxed, and of no interest to agribusiness people,  
developers and politicians. Ideally, such homestead land is surrounded  
by thousands of acres of equally undesirable land.