At 63 I Faced Losing My Farm Until An Unexpected Delivery Changed Everything

response was to keep working. He had passed that philosophy to me along with the land, and I was trying to live by it in 1982, but some days the philosophy and the bank balance were in direct conflict.

The foreclosure notice that had arrived seventeen days ago was not, in that sense, a surprise. It was the destination of a road I had been on for two continue reading …