A24-Lancast*r Farming, Saturday, Dacamber 3, 1994
Planning For Future Key
(Continued from Pago A 22)
changes that were about to happen.
“The kids did chores for us for
five days and we went to a state
park, camping. All we did for five
days was talk about the life
changes that were going to happen
in the next five years and sit down
and make plans. One of the things
they said at the MAP program was
that you can’t do this at home. You
have to get away. And we had just
done that I was kind of a witness to
the MAP program philosophy that
it does work,” she said.
Their ultimate long-term goal is
to turn the farm over to Clifford
Township and for it to remain open
land.
The idea came from an older
man who had done the same thing
in the ndrthem New Jersey town
where Sandy once lived:
“Now it’s the only open land
available in northern New Jersey
where you can go to see chip
munks and squirrels and leant how
to fish. That man left the land and
enough money to maintain it but
they pould never develop it,” she
explained. “We’d really like to do
that, but todo that we have to retire
without selling the property.”
Their desire led to Sandra join-
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“I wanted to leant how to make
money with my money. Not that I
had great sums of money, but
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I wanted to learn this and I didn’t
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read a couple books and I went to a
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seemed like they gave us total
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“We have our long-range goal
for the farm but, in the meantime,
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we don’t want to woik till we kill
ourselves and not have any money
to enjoy life,” she said. “We’ve
worked hard. I guess the main
change in the philosophy is that
we’re looking for payback now.
‘The last three years have really
been the most exciting on the farm
that we’ve had. Just because of the
promise of what’s coming. I can’t
wait for the next 10 years to go by,”
Sandra said, with a laugh.
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