The Myth of the Breeze

Episode 2: planting trees on leased land

For young agri­cul­tural entre­pre­neurs, often the biggest inhibitor to start­ing a farm is find­ing afford­able land close to viable mar­kets. More and more farm­ers are leas­ing their land today– as much as 50% of farm­ers lease the land they work. But what’s at stake when you plant a tree on land you do not own, on land that some­day, you may just walk away from? Leas­ing land means cre­at­ing rela­tion­ships as healthy as your soil and as fruit­ful as your tallest peach tree.

Lis­ten to this month’s episode of From the Ground Up: Plant­ing trees on leased land