Country singer Jordan Davis spins a difficult story these days in “Buy Dirt.” You can’t buy happiness but you can buy dirt. Put up a fence, a house, work hard, put down roots, raise a family. Buy dirt. Used to be easier, possible. But at almost $5000 an acre of dirt in Adams County Wisconsin, small family farming is hardly possible.
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