Re: OT:Farm findings
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: OT:Farm findings
- From: s*@aristotle.net (J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey)
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:55:23 -0700 (MST)
>Over the weekend I came
>across an abandoned farm house and always having a shovel in my trunk,
>I stopped and searched the overgrown areas.
Umm ... darting into other people's land and taking their things is
stealing, whether the owners seem to want those things or not. Would you
have brought along a flatbed truck and hauled away the house? It's the same
principle. Telling ourselves we are rescuing the poor plants is specious
reasoning. If they've persisted 30 or 40 years without being tended, they
aren't in dire need of immediate help.
Unless there's a backhoe poised above their heads, go to the county
courthouse, look up the parcel, call the landowner and get permission. Many
times you won't even need to go to that much trouble. Just stop at the
corner store and ask who owns the land.
We should not condone stealing. Find the owners and ask permission.
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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257 feet above sea level,
average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons
