Springtime for Small Family Farms
Michigan agriculture blooms with lifestyle farming, specialization
Here’s a story I just ran across on Mlive.com, the Michigan news website. It was interesting to me because we, too, are a family farm. My husband originally bought the property back in the early seventies, one parcel in 1970 and the other in 1972. The roadside market, as it is now, was started in 1985, although from 1975 through 1984 he sold his produce across the street, with the help of his kind neighbor Mildred VanBuskirk.
It is nice to see that others are trying their hand at this rewarding lifestyle although it is sad that, more often than not, one must also work off the farm in order to make ends meet.
Annemarie on March 1st 2009 in Family Farms, History
