[AT] Sad!

[Phil]

What a cryin' shame. :o(

Phil

At 05:17 PM 11/5/2013, you wrote:
>See: 
>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/05/after-380-plus-years-new-hampshire-family-sells-farm/
>
>Three years after it was put up for sale, an 
>11-generation family farm in New Hampshire has 
>been sold for a fraction of the price that was first listed.
>
>Members of the Tuttle family owned the 135-acre 
>farm in Dover since 1632, one of America's 
>oldest continuously operated family farms. They 
>put the fruit-and-vegetable farm up for sale in 
>the summer of 2010 as they dealt with 
>competition from supermarkets, pick-it-yourself farms and debt.
>
>The original price was $3.35 million. Foster's 
>Daily Democratreports it sold last month for a 
>little over $1 million to Matt Kozazcki, who owns a farm in Newbury, Mass.
>
>"It's huge," Kozazcki told the paper. "It's a 
>lot of heritage. We're trying to make it as much 
>of a farm as possible. You can't forget the 
>Tuttles. I can appreciate the work they did," Kozazcki told the paper.
>
>Kozazcki calls the business Tendercrop Farm and 
>plans to sell meat and produce starting in December.
>
>Kozazcki said he plans to install a memorial 
>plaque honoring the Tuttles near the farm store entrance.
>
>The New York Times columnist Verlyn Klinkenborg 
>wrote a piece in 2010 when the farm went out of 
>business. She points out that the farm was 
>founded when there were, maybe, 10,000 colonists in America.
>
>"It is too simple to say, as the Tuttles have, 
>that the recession killed a farm that had 
>survived for nearly 400 years. What killed it 
>was the economic structure of food production. 
>Each year it has become harder for family farms 
>to compete with industrial scale agriculture — 
>heavily subsidized by the government — 
>underselling them at every turn," Klinkenborg 
>wrote. "In a system committed to the health of 
>farms and their integration with local 
>communities, the result would have been 
>different. In 1632, and for many years after, 
>the Tuttle farm was a necessity. In 2010, it is 
>suddenly superfluous, or so we like to pretend."
>
>The Associated Press contributed to this report
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