What can you do with 15,000 acres of the best land in the county?

The house with almost 15 acres of land cost $80,000.

It was too good to pass up, but what to do with 35 acres?

When he and his wife bought land in 1980, they began with about 30 or 40 acres.

Eventually they started over, but this time with just five acres.

"We started with 45 acres and did that for three or five years," he said.

With more than 37 million acres, Michigan is a large state.

Two years later, he started the farm with 13 acres.

Each island is with 2 to 5 acres in extent.

Many live on farms with under 10 acres of land.