In 2023, I picked up a copy of the Farmer’s Almanac and began to read. A statistic jumped out at me a few pages in: “Over the next 20 years, $24 trillion dollars worth of farmland and farming assets will change hands as farmers retire.” I kept reading. Over 50% of American farmers are over the age of 55. That’s not a good turnover for the industry that feeds us. Little did I know, I was reading about a statistic that would come to manifest as the biggest wealth transfer of our lifetimes… not from farmers to younger Americans, but from agricultural landowners to foreign countries. And it would happen under the guise of “green energy.” The more towns I travel to as I document the hideousness of solar complexes… the more I learn. It’s not the actively farming folks doing this to their land. They plan to keep farming and pass it on to their kids. It’s a hidden group of landowners that lease their land to farmers and cosplay as “rural Upstaters” while they sneak off to Florida from October to May. They give no notice to the farmers that were using their land while they fall over themselves to take advantage of green energy subsidies and credits. The active farmer gets demonized when in reality, it’s a group of farmland “landlords” that have hidden in the shadows for decades as they look for the next “get rich quick scheme.” And they found it in @KathyHochul, foreign corporations, and a @NYSDEC that has sworn to stay “out of the way” with solar and wind complex environmental degradation. There are more of us than there are of them. By a mile. Do not be afraid to stand up for the land that feeds you. Do not be afraid to defend your rural towns, farmland, and grasslands. Post what you see on here. Take videos. There is plenty of room for others to shed light on the biggest grift ever peddled on the American public. We’re only going to get one chance to defend our land. – at Amsterdam, NY