Yeah, sell ...sell what’s been family turf for years, maybe generations.
I feel for those folks and here’s why: my family owned property, consisting of a two story house, the original mortar and stone house built in,1858, a two floor barn, and a nice cottage house. My granduncle oversaw the property.
Being an Air Force family, I lived in that house my first three years of school, and my last two years of high school.
The summer I graduated high school, I enlisted in the I.D
S. Air Force. Mom kept telling me the small house was mine
Well, here I was in South East Asia, and I get a letter telling me that my aunt and uncle have decided to sell the house to a developer! After my wtf moment, my plans just got flushed. No input, no opinions asked, just plain, yeah
I had more words for those two, till the opportunity to say passed into the night
It may not have been a farm, but it was home.
I do understand your pain. I know several families here in Wisconsin that the women work and the men stay home to tend the farm. They could not afford to farm anymore. Fuel, fertilizer, feed, insurance, taxes etc. Industrial farms selling products at bare minimum. It is a sad ending when the property has been in the families for over a hundred years. Unfortunately, they have been left with no other choice then to sell.