This land has been in the family for generations. They started mining here in the 70s and ended at the 90s. It took me a year and a half to prepare this land, I had to plow and disc and plow and disk and eventually I could till it. Then I made raised beds and put 200 tonnes of wood chips down. This is my my little piece of paradise right here, just me and my blueberries. I used to work on the coal mines as a welder for 11 years. When they went bankrupt, I was already thinking of doing something else. So when I got laid off, one coal job would open up and hundreds would apply. I thought, I got this property, I thought I'd try an apple orchard. We had the soil tested, but the ph was too low. but it was perfect for blue berries. We do the blueberries on the old mine land and maple syrup and sorghum (molasses) on natural land. I sell them at the local farmers market. My sons 23, just graduated college, he was undecided what he wanted to do so he went and did agriculture and natural resources. There was no point in him coal mining, it's a dying industry. He wants to work in forestry and agriculture and he will have this farm to fall back on if he wants it. I think agriculture will be the future in this area, there's now big high ways or airports, Amazon ain't coming here, GM ain't moving their plants here, so it's agriculture.