Someone suggested in the last thread (my apologies for not remembering who) entering an essay “contest” to win a hobby farm that someone north of Fairbanks is selling (they apparently are homesick for New York state, and didn’t realise how much work farming is).

The contest consists of writing an essay saying why you would want a hobby farm in Alaska, and a $1000 entry fee. (Kind of like raffling off a house. We wanted to do that with our house and half an acre in town in Oklahoma when we sold it during the Bush recession, but raffling houses is illegal there. We wanted out bad enough that we sold it for $7000.)

I will put the question to my wife. The idea of farm work doesn’t scare me. Neither does cold (heck frequently Fairbanks is warmer than the Nebraska Panhandle).