Preserving Family Land: Innovative Land Use Solutions

Hi, y’all! Johanna here from the TX Soil Sisters.

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Greg Phillips, co-founding partner of the Houston-based law firm Phillips Kaiser, joins the Soil Sisters to discuss the challenges of preserving family land. Greg's rural upbringing in East Texas and the difficulties faced by generational landowners inspired his commitment to helping those families with limited financial resources find solutions.

Gregory L. Phillips is the co-founding partner of Phillips Kaiser, a law firm of Houston business attorneys, and co-founder of The Legacy Project, a project dedicated to increasing diversity in the legal field.

Born and raised in Houston with deep rural East Texas family roots, Greg set his sights on a career in business far from the small “hometown” mindset of his upbringing. He attended Southern Methodist University planning to become an investment banker. Taking a $20 bet from a fraternity brother to take the LSAT changed Greg’s course. Greg took his fraternity brother’s money as well as the LSAT. He scored high enough that one of his professors encouraged him to apply to law school... and the rest is history.

Greg shares how he built a relationship with the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP) based in South Carolina and their newly launched East Texas Heirs Property Initiative. This discussion dives into the challenges of succession planning, heirs' property issues, and maintaining family land. The conversation emphasizes the importance of keeping family land intact and out of the box thinking to build generational wealth.

This is such an important conversation for limited-resource landowners!

Happy farming and healthy living, y’all.

Jo (and Crystal) ❤️

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Time Stamps and Links

00:00 Welcome to the Soil Sisters Podcast

00:25 Meet Greg Phillips

01:14 Greg's East Texas Roots

03:53 The Importance of Succession Planning

04:48 Greg's Journey into Land Ownership

13:05 Alternative Land Uses and Opportunities

20:09 The East Texas Heirs Property Initiative

27:14 Land Utilization for Generational Wealth

28:08 Innovative Land Use Programs

29:45 Building Infrastructure for Landowners

31:18 Nonprofit and Private Sector Collaboration

34:47 Hemp Production and Industrial Uses

44:02 Getting Involved and Next Steps 


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