Polish land restrictions burn foreign farmers.

From: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | Date: June 15, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Tom Hundley

CETYN, Poland _ Freddie and Rina Beltman came to Poland from their native Netherlands in pursuit of a simple dream: To farm.

"A farmer is not something you become. You have to be a farmer," Rina Beltman said as she sat at the kitchen table and spooned oatmeal into the mouth of her 10-month-old daughter. "My husband is a farmer."

Freddie Beltman grew up on his father's farm in Overijssel, a prosperous agricultural province in nor...

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