by Jennifer Welch It wasn’t so long ago that we decided to move The Crowded Acre to a larger parcel of land – just over five years ago, to be exact. It’s strange to think, in hindsight, of what our “ideal” farmland was and how much we expected it to cost. Initially we wanted to purchase property with grazing land, possibly even with water rights, gardens and hayfields. But the prices of those properties were astronomical compared to our budget. We quickly found that we were nowhere close to being able to afford anything considered “farmland,” a realization that affected ...
