In 2003, with his son coming along as a dedicated vocational-agricultural student, Vincent wanted to expand his land holdings to ensure a new generation a shot at farming, but housing developers in northern Connecticut were bidding up the price of prime farming land to over $12,000 an acre, beyond the point where it paid to expand. Worried that he and his son couldn't afford to stay here, Vincent bought a farm near Mohawk, N.Y.

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