I wish, however, that people would spend the same energy to keep farmers in business. Farmers might grow food, have it processed locally, and sell it locally. A group organizing such a system would do more to preserve farmland than all the zoning ordinances we have in place. The purchase of development rights might become a moot point, for farmland would have good value as farmland. Our community is becoming divided against itself.
Some farmers think their fields can only turn a profit when planted to houses.
Some of their neighbors think they have the right to say that's not allowed to happen. Whether we're right or we're wrong, we're still neighbors.