The Farmer Who Refused to Sell
In 2012, a developer offered Dorothy Bain of rural Saskatchewan nearly triple the market value for her family's 160-acre wheat farm. Every neighbor on the...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40.
In 2012, a developer offered Dorothy Bain of rural Saskatchewan nearly triple the market value for her family's 160-acre wheat farm. Every neighbor on the county road had already sold. Condominiums and strip malls were creeping closer each season, and the developers were getting impatient. They called weekly. They sent lawyers. They even implied they could make things difficult. Dorothy kept planting winter wheat.…
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