Danice Gregorowicz

Thank you all for your input. Would selling the potential fruit/christmas trees/veggies for a minimum donation amount and the money goes to the church be a way around them leasing land to someone? But they also have to maintain the crops so we would need to get something back, maybe a prearranged amount to keep up with the machines and necessities of farming.

There is a bit of land that is now an overgrown abandoned christmas tree farm. It was purchased to build homes on but there is protected marsh land across the road, it is now owned by a Presbyterian church group located in closer to the city. Nothing has happened with this land for years, we don't have the money to buy but we would love to make this a productive farm again. We love the idea of bringing back the christmas trees but of also expanding to include fruit or animals.

I just don't know how to go about convincing this church group that they want us to live on this property and make it beautiful again and then theres the possibility that we could make money from this potential farm. What happens if we are able to sell the trees and various fruits, does the church get some or all of the proceeds?

Any suggestions or experiences would be much appreciated. I haven't found any related threads, if anyone has links I will gladly read any and all recommendations.

I am a 26yo college graduate with a B.S. degree in biology. My boyfriend and I work hard everyday at the local butcher shop and in our gardens. Previous experience on a christmas tree farm, raising horses, training dogs, and creating and maintaining gardens. We have a dream of working a farm and being sustainable. We do have to think about his daughter who lives with her mother near Lusby, MD and being able to travel to get her every other weekend. We are looking to learn all that we can and help out any way that we can. Please contact me if you have any information that would help us, or if you have a farm that would benefit from having two mid-twenties responsible adults working the land. Thank you!