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.
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