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The Farmhouse Craze Is Making it Harder for Actual Farmers to Buy Land | Ambrook Research

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Growing food is in Arya Royal’s blood. She was raised in Missouri, where her mom had a vegetable garden big enough to feed their whole family through the summer. Royal grew up with her hands in the earth. Read Next It’s a Beautiful Day in the Agrihood Agritourism Won’t Fix Every Farmer’s Financial Woes Is Every Farmer an Influencer Now? “The first picture we have of me is in the garden eating mint and strawberries,” she said with a chuckle. As she grew up, Royal received a full-ride scholarship to the University of Virginia and left home, losing touch with those roots — temporarily. It wasn’t until her father suddenly died this year that she found her way back to the dirt. “When my dad passed away, I found that I was so much lighter in nature,” she said. “I realized I couldn’t keep going on the sort of path I was on.” But Royal knew it would be incredibly difficult to find available, affordable farmland. Across the country, farmland within driving distance of towns and cities is being

Farmhouse properties are so pretty, they’re getting too expensive to use for agriculture. Growing food is in Arya Royal’s blood. She was raised in Missouri, where her mom had a vegetable garden big enough to feed their whole family through the summer. Royal grew up with her hands in the earth. Read Next It’s a Beautiful Day in the Agrihood Agritourism Won’t Fix Every Farmer’s Financial Woes Is Every Farmer an Influencer Now? “The first picture we have of me is in the garden eating mint and strawberries,” she said with a chuckle. As she grew up, Royal received a full-ride scholarship to the Uni

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