Holly’s Happenings

I don’t get up to the area that I grew up in very often, and when I do it’s usually just going from here to my mom’s house and then right back home. When I was out and about Friday I was able to drive through the area that I grew up and see all the changes that have happened over the years. I grew up on a very large farm and my father came from a family who had several generations of farmers, it was just something that was in his blood. What shocked me the most Friday was to see all of the farm land for sale! Fields that had been owned and farmed by families for several generations sat dormant and it was obvious that they hadn’t been farmed for a very long time! I know it’s not just the area that I grew up in that’s going through this, I see it around where I live now as well. Land that was being farmed when we moved down here over 12 years ago now hold large subdivisions or factories instead. It makes me wonder about the future of farming in the US. We need these crops to maintain our country, but if these farmers are selling their land left and right, how are we going to continue to maintain the need for the crops? To put it simply, we aren’t! We’re going to rely more and more on getting our crops from other countries, which, to me, is very sad! It’s not the principles that farmers like my father stood for!