I’m Giving Away The Farm
“I’m Giving Away The Farm”
A labor of affection might be an understatement this Romantic days celebration for one Sioux Falls doctor. And she's also providing a brand new meaning to giving away the farm.
Dr. Annette Bosworth has traveled around the state trying to find methods to distribute cost-effective medicine to the people who don't have access. Even though the endeavor has good intentions, raising awareness and cash has been difficult. This is exactly why the Plankinton native decided to get a little creative and raffle off her family's farmland.
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"The first week, everybody think it is a scam," Bosworth said. "The second week, they type of said, 'No, I think this really is real.' So then it started to grab and over the last five days, I haven't been able to maintain what the number is."
Bosworth is selling $1,000 tickets for the first 500 those who sign up. The winning ticket are certain to get nearly 160 acres to farm and hunt in Aurora County, all for the purpose of helping those in need.
"I'm using South dakota land for a very different purpose," Bosworth said. "But it is kind of rewarding the talent of thinking away from box."
Bosworth says rural communities constitute a majority of the state of South Dakota. And she believes the mixture of technology plus more personal service can meet the needs of those communities.
"The procedure for taking in a patient or understanding who they really are becomes very much the patient's responsibility," Bosworth said. "And they take ownership within their care a lot quicker."
The Aurora County land has been doing Bosworth's family for generations. While she admits not everyone is sold on the idea, she believes it's her method of changing the health care landscape being a private physician.
"It is a touch crazy to say this concept of raffling your land, how will you possibly do that?" Bosworth said. "But additionally it is a little crazy to consider you can be one person and alter how the industry works."
Bosworth says only 1 / 2 of the 500 raffle tickets have been sold so far. Enter won't happen until they're all gone. But with the current stream of customers, she hopes that may happen in a few weeks.
A labor of affection might be an understatement this Romantic days celebration for one Sioux Falls doctor. And she's also providing a brand new meaning to giving away the farm.
Dr. Annette Bosworth has traveled around the state trying to find methods to distribute cost-effective medicine to the people who don't have access. Even though the endeavor has good intentions, raising awareness and cash has been difficult. This is exactly why the Plankinton native decided to get a little creative and raffle off her family's farmland.
South Dakota
"The first week, everybody think it is a scam," Bosworth said. "The second week, they type of said, 'No, I think this really is real.' So then it started to grab and over the last five days, I haven't been able to maintain what the number is."
Bosworth is selling $1,000 tickets for the first 500 those who sign up. The winning ticket are certain to get nearly 160 acres to farm and hunt in Aurora County, all for the purpose of helping those in need.
"I'm using South dakota land for a very different purpose," Bosworth said. "But it is kind of rewarding the talent of thinking away from box."
Bosworth says rural communities constitute a majority of the state of South Dakota. And she believes the mixture of technology plus more personal service can meet the needs of those communities.
"The procedure for taking in a patient or understanding who they really are becomes very much the patient's responsibility," Bosworth said. "And they take ownership within their care a lot quicker."
The Aurora County land has been doing Bosworth's family for generations. While she admits not everyone is sold on the idea, she believes it's her method of changing the health care landscape being a private physician.
"It is a touch crazy to say this concept of raffling your land, how will you possibly do that?" Bosworth said. "But additionally it is a little crazy to consider you can be one person and alter how the industry works."
Bosworth says only 1 / 2 of the 500 raffle tickets have been sold so far. Enter won't happen until they're all gone. But with the current stream of customers, she hopes that may happen in a few weeks.