Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>]

Hi Lucile

This article has 3 links to the various bodies that
made news about it;

Great Plains;

http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/22/real_estate/buying_selling/thursday_freeland/index.htm
also;
http://www.coffeyville.com/Free%20Land.htm

The deal is basically to restore populations to the
great plains bread basket area.  You got a big sky and
a community nearby, but they are always fighting
flight to urbanization for their kids.  There is
nothing to look at but the big sky and not much to do
that you don't create or drive a ways to get too. 
Even though most of these properties are IN towns.

Alaska;

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259264,00.html
and;
http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/Free_land_in_Alaska

Has the same problem for the opposite reason, great
view... while your tooties freeze.

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT ;
 
Has something called "Desert Land Entries"
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/lands/desert_land_entries.print.html

Which are the only "free land" still available from
the government.  The idea is to take land that has
become desert and turn it into productive agricultural
lands,  You have to show a land irrigation plan and
show that you are making headway and spending money on
the land improvements. The cost for irrigation systems
is expected to be in the area of a quarter million.  I
don't know that you have to put this in the plan or
not, and I don't know if Zai holes and Waffle gardens,
swales, retention areas and other in-place water
capture systems would be sufficient to get you a
"pass" without having spent the actual mullah on the
actual piping systems to county water.   After 3
years, though, if you aren't showing sufficient
improvement during an on-site inspection, the land is
taken back.

Yours, Pego

<<Every so often I hear a news story where some place
is giving away acreage to folks that will move in for
so long or improve it so much etc...Anyone know where
one of these places is? Lucile>>




 
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