Posted on 10/06/2022 6:50:23 AM PDT by mikelets456
The title is a bit misleading, but like everything else I believe this is step #1 leading to a more nefarious database.
In a move that has many folks scratching their heads, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its push for the People’s Garden Initiative which now includes registering vegetable gardens nationwide. According to the USDA, the move is to foster a “more diverse and resilient local food system to empower communities to address issues like nutrition access and climate change.” But those who have been following the USDA closely for years know that they couldn’t care less about your health and nutrition.
To register your garden with the USDA, one must meet several easily obtainable standards.
School gardens, community gardens, urban farms, and small-scale agriculture projects in rural, suburban and urban areas can be recognized as a “People’s Garden” if they register on the USDA website and meet criteria including benefitting the community, working collaboratively, incorporating conservation practices and educating the public.
(Excerpt) Read more at activistpost.com ...
Will the USDA demand that MasterCard/Visa set up a separate, distinguishable purchase category for seed/fertilizer when folks buy for Spring planting?
I guess they are to be called capitulate gardens rather than victory gardens.
I guess a zucchini could be an assault weapon.
In which case it should be register with the Federal Government.. affectionately called Big Brother.
Not the Bee?
“the People’s Garden Initiative”.
Nothing wrong with that, is there? /s
“Register” my garden??? Oh heck no way ... EVER. I guess we’re going to have to start putting camo netting over our gardens now ....
Measuring what it will take to get food lines going, as well as, scaring American citizens.
I saw this type of thing during WW2, where people would just go and raid the garden whenever they felt like it.
Almost 100 years ago the Soviets confiscated ALL the food in Ukraine. Millions died.
Gardens on public land, not private. It takes a village type enterprises for virtue signaling. They will be a joke, but some feel-gooders will get to feel good.
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/news-room/news-releases/2022/usda-opens-peoples-garden-initiative-to-gardens-nationwide
Is the USSDA going to hire a bunch more employees that must be ready to ‘carry’?
My garden can never be a people’s garden.
It is an Animals Garden.
Groundhogs, deer, raccoons and voles are the main consumers of my produce.
Another thought...
Churches have ministries to feed the community via gardening, etc. Is this an attempt for the government to regulate them?
Agreed. When will this insanity end? In 60+ years I have never known such despair
Sounds communist.
No thanks.
Are the 87000 irs agents being hired to tax you on the Imputed income from your garden?
It doesn’t sound communist-it IS communist!
Is there no end to the control they want over us?
I want to know, specifically, whose idea this is!
I don’t have a garden, but they can go to hell…
Hello, Kulaks.
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