Posted on 09/13/2022 12:22:45 PM PDT by GraceG
WASHINGTON, September 9, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding its People’s Garden Initiative to include eligible gardens nationwide. 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. Affiliate People’s Garden locations will be indicated on a map on the USDA website, featured in USDA communications, and provided with a People’s Garden sign.
“We welcome gardens nationwide to join us in the People’s Garden effort and all it represents,” said Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, “Local gardens across the country share USDA’s goals of building more diversified and resilient local food systems, empowering communities to come together around expanding access to healthy food, addressing climate change and advancing equity.” About the Gardens
USDA originally launched the People’s Garden Initiative in 2009. It’s named for the “People’s Department,” former President Abraham Lincoln’s nickname for USDA, which was established during his presidency in 1862.
People’s Gardens grow fresh, healthy food and support resilient, local food systems; teach people how to garden using conservation practices; nurture habitat for pollinators and wildlife and create greenspace for neighbors.
Secretary Vilsack added: “We encourage existing gardens and new gardens to join the movement. Growing local food benefits local communities in so many ways, and we offer technical resources to help. Also, it’s a great way to connect with your local USDA team members.” How to Register
To learn more about People’s Garden or to register one, visit the People’s Garden webpage at usda.gov/Peoples-Garden. The location and information on each garden will be displayed on a map. USDA will send a “People’s Garden” sign to each garden and invite continued engagement through photos and information sharing. Gardens on federal property, such as USDA offices, are required to donate produce. We invite these gardens to report how much is being donated.
To be eligible, gardens:
Benefit the community by providing food, green space, wildlife habitat, education space. Are a collaborative effort. This can include groups working together with USDA agencies, food banks, after school programs, Girl Scouts, Master Gardeners, conservation districts, etc. Incorporate conservation management practices, such as using native plant species, rain barrels, integrated pest management, xeriscaping. Educate the public about sustainable gardening practices and the importance of local, diverse, and resilient food systems providing healthy food for the community.
New gardens will join the People’s Garden at USDA headquarters in Washington, D.C. and 17 other flagship gardens established earlier this year.
Years and years ago I stated here that I thought we were heading in the direction of feudalism.
this seems like another step in that direction.
Another step to total ownership.
“Gonna’ register your garden with the government?”
What garden? I have no idea what you’re talking about!
*SNORT*
“First they came for the Amish, but I wasn’t Amish, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Farmers selling Raw Milk, but I don’t sell raw milk, so I didn’t speak out. Then they came for the Farmers Market farms and the CSAs, but I don’t sell at market, so I didn’t speak out. Then they came for the Home Gardener...and by then there was no one left to speak for me.”
~ Pastor Niemöller (paraphrased!)
What garden? I have no idea what you’re talking about!
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OMG ... you lost it in a boating accident? LOL!
“taxed by a man in metal armor on horseback who will take our chickens.”
And our goats, sheep and the largest portion of our vegetable crops, fruit from our orchards-oh, hell, no-my ancestors left the Spanish Pyrenees for the what is now Mexico about 4 centuries ago because of the Spanish govt-s*** like that-no soy su campeseno-my garden/livestock/food, my business...
And garden inspections...
Yes-and feudalism was the reason most of our ancestors left Europe for the New World in the 1st place-that stupid people’s garden idea needs to be kicked to the curb at the 1st opportunity...
Here come the Kolkholzes.......Death to the Kulaks!
“We’re here from the Federal Government, and we’re here to harvest.”
It will be more like “We are here to destroy your unauthorized food source”
They are already doing this with livestock...
Our Gov’t is officially retarded.
This benefits nobody by the FASCISTS in charge.
“From information to recommendation to suggestion to regulation to enforcement. Who can’t see that coming?”
Seems to work every time Mother Government tries it!
Oh, HAIL, no!
BTTT!!!!!
“I am starving the beast with minimalism as we speak...The one thing you can always count on as true is human greed.”
^^THIS^^
*BUMP*
I will garden as I please.....
No phone! No lights! No motorcar! Not a single luxury! Like Robinson Caruso, it’s primitive as can be. ;)
Actually, the pressure tank went wonky, so I WAS without water for a few days...but it rained all of those days so my (soon to be illegal!) 55 gallon rain barrel is fuller than full. ;)
What am I saying? I don’t have a rain barrel. I misspoke, Mr. Brownshirt! ;)
they are coming for your food now too...
LOL...you grow too much food.
It is refreshing to see we are not the only ones who have it figured out. :)
Truly... We could fix this mess in short order if more were willing to stand strong and quit playing their game.
And PLEASE don’t tell the, ‘Grocers Cartel’ that supper tonight is a Rib-Eye from my own hand-raised steer, green beans from the garden picked earlier today and homemade cinnamon applesauce from my own apple trees.
*SMIRK*
..... my (soon to be illegal!) 55 gallon rain barrel ....
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Rain barrels are going to be illegal? What is the reasoning behind that? I’m not even going to put into words what I’m thinking right now .....
We lose power & we lose it all - phone, well/water, etc. We do have a hand pump on an old shallow well so in the past, I’ve pumped 5 gallon buckets for flushing the toilets. Before I renovated the old house & moved out here, I had to hand pump water for the horses all winter when the water line to the barn froze up or there was no power. When living here, I also had two big trash cans in the mud room I would fill up when the power was out for a couple of days, then I didn’t have to go outside every time I needed some water. We’re on what used to be a dead end road & until they built a subdivision off the end of it, we were some of the last folks to get our power restored when there was a big storm that knocked out large areas.
I can ‘rough it’ if I have to - the way things are going, it’s a skill that might come in handy.
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