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So you want to buy a farm…

So you want to buy a farm…

By Andrew Joseph, Farms.com

The dream is simple – leave the city and buy property in the country and become a small farmer of flowers, trees, fruits, grains, veggies or poultry, beef or dairy cattle.

The reality, however, much more complex, fraught with unknowns and unforeseen issues, controversies and your own knowledge of how exactly you are going to get started or finish.

It happens. But it need not.

Writer Eve Thomas has consolidated some advice via Elle Canada, on just what you should know before moving from city to a farm.

To view the article, click HERE.    

Photo by Jessica Rockowitz on Unsplash

 


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