We have 15.5 acres. We take care of 2 and rent out 13.5 to a farmer. I would love to do something with the 13.5 acres, but I don’t have the time or equipment to do anything with it. We need to figure out something, though.

We have several fruits planted on our 2 acres. We lost our apple trees last year, and we couldn’t figure out why. We had just planted them the year before, so they were young. We had bought them from the store and they were maybe 5 ft tall. This year, we just lost an elderberry bush and our grapes and raspberries aren’t looking good.

My wife says Japanese beetles may be to blame for the grapes because they’ve been a constant issue. As for the rest, we think the crap that the farmer sprays is drifting over and killing our plants. Maybe we planted too close. I don’t know. This isn’t my field of expertise. I would rather just turn our field into something else that brings in money. We get almost 4k a year from the farmer, and that covers all of our property taxes. #grownostr