Posted on 03/15/2009 3:50:04 PM PDT by Gabz
Good Evening Good FRiends and Good Gardeners.
The FReeper Gardening list got a huge workout this week, and I guess I should apologize for all the extra pings that probably often didn’t seem to have anything to do with why we originally started our list. Unfortunately it seems it has been taken out of my hands because the politics of our times has now invaded our gardens and farms.
I didn’t start out to create a new thread, in fact this actually started out as an email to a friend from Church. We had gotten talking after service and he was not fully aware of some of the things we had all discussed this week and I told him I would send some links. The links I was planning on sending him were to two articles we had all discussed here this week, however when I got back here this afternoon I realized there were far more than just the 2 and while starting to compile my email, I thought it might not be a bad idea to stick all of the links I was sending him into one thread.
Please all bear with me, as the order these links are the order was I sending him based upon our conversation this morning and not how we discussed them this week. Heck, who knows, he may enjoy our banter enough when he reads through some of our links and actually decide to join us. I sure hope, so as he is a very knowledgeable gentleman.
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Also folks, please bear with me on my HTML skills (which are minimal) as I wrote this in a Word document based on my FR HTML usage
The First is to the transcript thread of the weekly address in which 0bama announces his new food police:
Weekly Address: Reversing a Troubling Trend in Food Safety (w/transcript of Pres__ent's Address)
Next is an article from the BBC in which it explains that 0bama is calling our food sytem a public health hazard:
Obama warns of US food 'hazard'
The 3rd link is a VERY long, but well detailed description of much of HR 875, the Food Safety Act, and just what it will mean to even most of us who are just backyard gardeners, let alone the small family farmers among us.
More Freedom Attack, Food Safety Act
Next on the list is a tie-in piece of “legislation” known as NAIS, which has ben being discussed here on FR for a good long time. This is another lengthy, but informative, article.
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (Gubmint Counting Your Chickens--Literally! Alert!)
I added the next one in my list to my friend because we like our potlucks and our semi-annual Pancake suppers, which are a fundraiser for the Church.
(PA) Dept. of Agriculture stops fish fry pie sales
This final thread from this afternoon is just an example of the “too numerous to count” articles that we have all been seeing lately about how many more folks are either planting gardens for the first time or expanding the ones they have. The cited article is from Salon and AP, so even though I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I can just imagine how fun it is going to be!!!
< a href =” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207096/posts”> Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom (It's official: We're now peasants!!)
I am now going to attempt to post this. I’m posting in CHAT because all of these threads have already appeared in NEWS.
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Gardening PING!!!!!!!!!!
I’m going to be sending this thread to my friend David who I mention in the article.
Please everyone add links to the other articles we dealt with this week —— thanks!
I’m actually working on a REAL REGULAR FUN gardening thread for this week -— I PROMISE!!!!
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Ahhh. Very nice. I've just been calling him Present Obama. I like the way you call attention to the missing letters better. I am adopting (stealing?) your style.
Ahhh. Very nice. I've just been calling him Present Obama. I like the way you call attention to the missing letters better. I am adopting (stealing?) your style.
Getting geared up for the collective farming thing.
can u put me on the ping list please?
What will be next...Family cookouts???
Tarheel
please put me on your ping list.
Thanks
Lurking’
The links aren’t working.
Good grief! This almost sounds like the communes of the 60’s. Or is it the Central Planning Committee assigning us to sovkhozes and kolkhozes? Wait, that was a 5-YEAR plan....and Obama will not last that long.
;-)
*****Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production*****
http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/02/2009-global-food-catastrophe.html
The letters missing are “ID” as in no birth certificate....fitting however.
I honestly would like to know more about growing foods from which I can use the seeds (in the coming year). I am also interested in acquiring a good greenhouse.
Please be add me to your Garden Ping list...
Thank you.
“Please be add”
Honest, I really don’t talk like that. ;>)
They have gators in Southern Japan ?
Where I live on an acre of rural property I will have to get a land clearing permit first. Probably have to verify there are no endangered species or wetlands going to be threatened. Than we have a water restriction in place...
Might as well plant pot to offset the permitting amd gubmint intrusion! ;-)
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