Posted on 03/09/2009 3:28:46 PM PDT by posterchild
“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Aug. 23, 1785
Thomas Jefferson was a firm believer in the art of growing plants, the wealth of knowledge that flora can offer and the self-sufficiency acquired by honing such skills.
In 2009, we might want to take a look back at gardening in order to move forward. During World War I and World War II, the United States government asked its citizens to plant gardens to maintain the war effort. These gardens were coined the names “victory gardens,” “liberty gardens” and “war gardens.”
Because the nation’s allies had suffered food shortages, American leaders wanted to prepare their country for hard times. The call to action was met with fervor as millions planted gardens. In 1943, Americans planted more than 20 million victory gardens, and their harvest accounted for nearly a third of all the vegetables eaten in the U.S. that year.
The government emphasized the family and community spirit involved, that it wasn’t drudgery and toiling but a pastime and a national duty. It aimed to encourage residents to use less fuel, conserving it for the war. Even Eleanor Roosevelt joined in the cause and created a White House victory garden to generate positive press.
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Obama will just make it illegal because the food grown isn’t for the general welfare.
Can you add me please? We are getting ready to start our first full garden. Until the county cleared some trees for a sewer project we never could do it will all the shade. Other than herb/container plants.
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>>Obama will just make it illegal because the food grown isn’t for the general welfare.<<
I wish you were joking...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202469/posts
Some of us believe that there should be an official White House garden, as the Roosevelts had during the Great Depression. I’d like to see Michelle and Barry out there in overalls with rakes and hoes . . . but I won’t hold my breath. They’d rather work out than work outside.
A victory garden is a big help. But that was then and this is now.
America doesn’t succeed when it just tries to survive. It succeeds when it tries to thrive. So don’t just garden, but try and garden better.
Healthier plants. Bigger yields. Extra crops to trade. Fewer bad insects, weeds, pest animal and bird losses, and plant diseases. More nutritious vegetables.
Gardening isn’t just poking holes in the ground, dropping in seeds and watering occasionally. It is a science, and the more you know the better you do.
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I am looking into aquaponics myself.
Seed sales up...way up. For those of you in tight quarters; don’t forget container gardening or ‘square foot gardening’...very easy with very healthy and tasty results!
I wished I were too.
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And here it is:
H.R.875 S425
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
Title: To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] (introduced 2/4/2009) Cosponsors (39)
Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
I just knew the Democrats would do this. FDR did this.
Let’s recap the things for which Obama will make me a criminal:
gardening (25 years or more)
guns (life in prison)
religion (because I’m not muslim - HATE CRIME)
talking/speech/blogging (because I don’t like his ideas - HATE CRIME)
That about covers my crimes (until Barry makes something else I do illegal, that is)
They will have to pry my hoe from my dead, cold hands!!!!
Give me a hoe and I’ll feed a lot of people. Give me a salad and I’ll wait for somebody to feed me.
If they come for my tomato plants in my window, I’ll have to hurt somebody.
Grrr, don’t mess with my babies.
I noticed that they aren’t taking orders until fall. Another place to buy heirloom seeds is http://www.groworganic.com I’ve been trying to buy as many heirlooms as possible so that I can eventually only use my own seeds year after year. This makes me want to move even faster on it.
One of the BEST places for heirloom seed is:
I used to work for them and will personally vouch for their selection and quality. :)
I now work for:
We have some great varieties, too. We also own Totally Tomatoes and The Vermont Bean Seed Company, two other great sources:
Ping To #19. Sorry! :)
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