My family's farm has been struggling and we keep having these tense conversations about selling versus trying to make it work, but underneath it all we're dancing around the fact that none of us kids really want to farm but we feel guilty about letting go of four generations of this land. Every family dinner becomes about crop prices and debt instead of the meals we used to share from what we grew.
More people experience this than they realize.
Grief and guilt about discontinuing a family legacy is masquerading as practical disagreements about money.
“Where Are You with Food growing and connection to land?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.