>>907885Owning a farm is real stability - not just for you but for your entire bloodline.
Somebody in your family down on their luck? They can come work on the farm. Family member convicted of a crime, and thus unemployable? They can come work on the farm. Family member doesn't like city-living? Farm-or-bust.
The trick is keeping it in the family, but also in the right hands. If your kids are rotten shits that have no interest in the farm (even after growing up and watching it provide for them), don't leave it to them when you die. Instead leave it to an interested nephew or cousin with the proper stipulations outlined in your will.
Not to mention that your food is taken care of for the rest of your life and the lives of your heirs. I want one so bad, but I probably won't ever get there with land prices ever-rising and employment becoming scarcer with each passing year - not to mention my 0 experience.
Anyone know how to break into the farming industry? I was thinking of e-mailing a few farms in the mid-west USA and seeing if they could use a farmhand for a few years in exchange for experience and room-and-board but who would help a stranger - not to mention future competitor - like that these days?
