On The Grind

Her family had been struggling against this exact fight for generations, fending off land-hoarders and corporate conglomerates since they had first settled the area in 1889. They had fled the South, finding promise and early success as homesteaders on the land straddling the Great Plains-Ozarks-Deep South triangle. All in all, the early Hatcher clan had managed to grow their modest holdings five-fold over two generations – whether from generationally nurtured skills in the sugarcane fields of Louisiana, those created in the harsh new environment, or a mix of both.