So You’ve Inherited a Family Farm… Now What?

We begin season two of The Storytellers' Porch with our host Jill Davis and her long-time friend and co-host, Emily Chase Smith.

Jill Davis has been helping people identify their dreams, tell their stories and share their ideas with the world for the past 30 years. She is a coach, speaker, author, as well as a mother of four and grandmother of two, living a life of joy in the beautiful Colorado Mountains.

Jill's time as the lead speaker coach for TEDx Colorado Springs inspired her to create The Storytellers’ Porch, a podcast showcasing personal stories with collective impact.

Our co-host Emily Chase Smith is an attorney, So Cal native and lover of VW buses. She’ll be joining us for the entire season as we explore Jill’s journey to owning an incredible, 300+ acre farm in rural Kansas.

Today’s story takes us to the beginning of Jill’s journey with her family’s farm in Kansas. Growing up, Jill never spent time at the farm but her father, who left the property to Jill when he passed away in 2018, visited at least once per year to help his employees with harvest season. All throughout her life, Jill heard stories about the farm through her dad but was far removed as she grew up in the city lifestyle of Colorado Springs.

Following her inheritance, Jill took solace in the knowledge that her father had set up his will to allow Jill 5 years to decide what to do with the property and how to manage it. Farm hands lived on property at the time and were there to handle it all for her until the time came to make a decision.

Through a series of unexpected events, Jill was forced to move much faster than she had planned. In this episode, we discover how our host navigated the process of inheritance, the people she met along the way, her findings about the remote Kansas county (population 2,200) in which the farm is located and the history behind how her family came to own such a sizable property. Find out more and see Jill's pictures of the transformation of her farm at:

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