My name is Tommy N. Schram.

I am a 78-year-old retired man on Social Security living my American dream on a small 1&1/4 acre farm that a California developer has turned into a nightmare.

The farmhouse we live in was built in 1910 and the address is in Vancouver, WA, and has been the same since then. The driveway is the access to this house.

A prescriptive easement for the driveway crosses a lot out to 72nd Ave. and has been in use since 1910.

The developer from California expects me to change my address and move my driveway to where my garden is now.

The legal cost of trying to prevent this has taken over $30,000, almost all the savings and loan money I can borrow.

The court case has not been decided yet.

Without help, I will not be able to keep up the good fight to save my farm if there is an appeal. The deep pockets of the developer will steal my American dream and cost me over $30,000.

The large garden we have provides more than half the food we eat, which I tend all by hand. We freeze and can much of what we eat.

We have raised four black Angus steers, chickens, ducks, and there are two sheep in the pasture now.

The garden provides corn, tomatoes, beets, carrots, beans, broccoli, turnips, peas, Swiss chard, sunflowers, kohlrabi, onions, and more.

If you can, please help with whatever you can. Please, my fellow Americans, help save my farm.