-snip- my love of farms and farming never went away, and in 1999, I purchased my paternal grandfathers 130-hectare (320-acre) property, Pinehurst Farm, which had been out of the family for 55 years. I wasnt exactly sure what Id do with the place, but by the time I retired in 2007, there was more and more talk about climate change due to human-caused carbon emissions.