Ep. 109 - Don't Sell Out: Protecting Your Farm, Your Community, and the Next Generation
This week Winnie and Lacy are talking about something that stopped them cold, a recent report that 40 Canadian farm families reached out to a land investor this spring asking him to buy their land. Not because they wanted to sell. Because the bank wasn't waiting any longer, and planting season was coming.
That is not just a financial story. That is a community story. When independent farms sell out to distant investors, what gets lost is not only the land. It's the community hall, the neighbours who show up at a grass fire, the affordable acres that the next generation of young farmers was…
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