It's a wash. Plus, there are so many other benefits such as the money farmers get from leasing their land for windmills.

Land is so incredibly expensive. We do need money. I think it's really important as we continue to develop to save pockets where we can still come and sit in peace.

I'm putting my money where my mouth is. If I don't pay, they take the land. What more can I do?

They didn't want all their money tied up in land. We're buying the surplus from them and what we can buy around it.

Education is our main focus. I live on land where the Cherokees lived. For me, this is a little bit about guilt and a lot about my love of history.

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.