Hey! Where Have You Been?

No, where have WE been!
Been looking at farmland in central Pennsylvania.
What’s left of it, anyway!
LandCrazed (the blogger) is getting ready to get back in the saddle …

Georgia Trees are Bedroom Communities

After our annual Atlanta Easter, we’re headed north up I-81 through some more beautiful mountain country. More on Virginia and the Shenandoah ridges later …
Before leaving Georgia, we thought we’d look at opportunities in counties on the fringes of Atlanta’s burgeoning development region, which happens to be in the southeast’s “Paper Belt,” with some pretty nice forest lands. Southern Timber Company is holding [...]

The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down

 
It’s Easter weekend, which means it’s the LandCrazed gang’s annual trip to Atlanta and we’ve got one word to describe the boomtown development that is eating up land in the counties all around this swelling ex-urban hub:
Wow!
“Metro” Atlanta is spiking upwards towards the 5 million inhabitants range and, from the looks of the highways and [...]

Little Boxes On The Hillside …

When you click on this link (below) you have to sing the song Pete Seeger made famous: Little Boxes

Matt Jalbert’s Exuberance site, which is an eyeful for the landcrazed in all of us …

What’s Up in Real Estate Search?!

Well, it has been our premise FROM THE START that, YES, real estate is one of the hottest web 2.0 markets ready to be plumbed, which accounts for the tremendous buzz today about Zillow. (Just go there and see.)
However, while residential and even commercial real estate sites have enjoyed scintillating interest and web presence/ explosion, [...]

In Praise of The Mad Farmer/Poet

“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.” — Wendell Berry
April is national poetry month, so we here at LandCrazed (the blog) would like to [...]

Artist Fields Response to Sprawl

This is what it looks like when art imitates life. Or when art confronts the stupifying spread of sprawl.
Matthew Moore is the name of this visual artist. And in the farmlands outside of Phoenix — where Maricopa County, with 3.8 million people, is THE FASTEST growing county in America — Moore has undertaken a [...]

Forests Safe, Thanks to Judge, Congress

Two developments over the weekend did much to ensure the preservation of national park and forest lands.
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled against the Bush administration on new forestry rules that would have allowed forest managers greater discretion in selling public lands.
“The ruling overturns a key administration environmental rule that governs all 192 million [...]