Want a Free Farm in Alabama?

Now, this is not a joke.

For a mere $150 entry fee, along with a 200 word essay, you can enter and just might win this contest to own a 20 acre farm, complete with 56 goats and a guard dog, in Elkmont, Alabama.  Paul and Leslie Spell, of Humble Heart Farms, are moving to Central America where they will be teaching people how to start up operations for goat milk and goat cheese, etc.  Not only will you “inherit” the farm, but you’ll get $20,000 in cash to cover first year operations.

Seems to me like a very clever way for the Spell family to get out from under Reconstruction, (but hey, we’ve all given that some thought).  Meantime, if you’re trapped in the city, and you yearn for the country, here’s your opportunity to at least “purchase a chance” of winning.  If you’re purty good with words, you have a better chance than most of us.  It’s a clever raffle.  What we used to call a gamble – and what more appropriate way to start a farm, because that’s what ALL farmers are – gamblers.

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