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  • From: Frank Ventura <frank.dragonflyfarms AT gmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Public land leases..unwritten code among farmers???
  • Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:05:39 -0400

We have been farming and selling at markets for the last 6 years and the whole time looking for land to lease to expand. A great property owned by a neighboring town went out for bid and we where told about it, so naturally bid on it.

We won the bid! But now got a call from the previous farmer who is upset with us. They have been farming for a lot longer than us and told us we should have told them we where bidding on the land and we probably didn't understand that we shouldn't have bid on the land as we are new farmers. Is this some unwritten code among farmers we don't know about?

We feel bad as these farmers seem like really nice people although we don't really know them well. We assumed they where not using the land anymore from hearsay around town and now that we know they did bid we are surprised we where awarded the lease and the town didn't give preferential treatment to the incumbent farmer.

Good leased land around markets is a commodity around here and I feel competition for it is only growing.





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