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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.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.

My land, too, isn't worth much to anyone but me. It's the 'homestead' part 
of an old farm; 3/4 of my land is on a steep ridge behind the house. Not bad 
for a woodlot and grazing, but useless for any building or other 'easy money 
making'. All the best farmland was across the street and is now sprouting 
McMansions.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA