Hopes Dashed

We sent an email to Larson's Farm weeks ago, asking if we could go and talk to them about growing corn.  Every year they have huge corn fields, with a roadside stand, and at Halloween they have a big maze you can go through. 

Since we hadn't heard from them, and since our Mom believed they sold their farm, we decided to drive by it when we were in the neighborhood.  We were really sad to see this:

It's all boarded up and the fields are nothing but weeds. Another Connecticut farm is gone. It took some doing, but Mom finally found out the story -- a warehouse type of store wants to build there. We're not happy about that.
We learned that ten years ago there were about 1,000 farms in Connecticut.  Now it's barely over 300.

We will need to find another fairly local farm that grows corn to contact and see if they would let us visit and ask them questions.  This might mean we will need to look into New York, a neighboring state.

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