Everyone Rejected This 'Dead' Ohio Swamp — Then 6 Amish Horses Turned It Into a $300K Farm

Why would twelve commercial grain operators and three land developers walk away from 84 acres of Ohio bottomland at a county sheriff’s auction—only for a 54-year-old Old Order Amish teamster to buy the entire "worthless" swamp for $18,500 and turn it into the most productive farm in the county? In this documentary investigation, we travel to the Grand River flats of Trumbull County, Ohio, to uncover the true story of Parcel Seven. Three years before the auction, a 38-ton hydraulic excavator tried to cut a drainage ditch through the center of this glacial kettle bog—and sank up to its cab roof in liquefied blue glacial silt. After a $22,000 military-winch recovery, local banks officially red-lined the land as un-farmable wasteland. #AmishFarming #SoilScience #LandReclamation