I’ve been having to make trips out to some very backward rural areas and I can’t believe how the farmers and ranchers have let the land go. You’d think with the economy, they would be trying to utilize as much grazing and fertile acreage as possible. But that’s not what I’m seeing. Pastures are growing up with briars and small trees where in the past those would have been cleared out for cattle. Fields aren’t being cultivated. Orchards have been left to die. I’ve been around there all my life and I’ve never seen it like this. I honestly don’t know what to think of it or what it might mean.
“Fields aren’t being cultivated. Orchards have been left to die. I’ve been around there all my life and I’ve never seen it like this. I honestly don’t know what to think of it or what it might mean.”
It’s not like that around here - every SCRAP of land is in some form or cultivation or woodlot...and this is the most LIBERAL county in the state!
If those areas are REALLY rural, as in no other jobs/towns, etc. in the area, that land might be owned by city folk/local government for future use, or it’s farmland owned by a family and the ‘farm’ is gone and the kids have moved on and want nothing to do with the rural life.
Just a couple of ideas...