My bet? They are going to try and offer money for community gardens and urban farms as some kind of food initiative "for people of color" or "disadvantaged communities" so on. Which there is probably a LOT of money to grab if you know how to do their paperwork.
The trade off, they know about your garden, so if they decided you have to suddenly meet commercial USDA criteria, or pay taxes, yah...
So this one is on you. Do you want federal money to grow your garden in exchange to being subject to their dominion. Probably not for a private garden.
That said, absolutely yes get permits from your local county or city if you do go about making a private, personal food garden. Too many horror stories out there about pencil-neck bureaucrats sending bulldozer teams to raze somebody's suburban garden because Karen down the street complained it will ruin their property value to have anything but lawn behind your house. But if you got a permit from the local authority, they will enjoy telling Karen to pound sand, see permit, she can go fuck herself, to honor her request would be work they don't wanna do, like going to court to challenge your permit. Because the inverse is true if you don't have a permit, you become the easier one to fuck over because calling the city workers to rip up your garden is easier than putting up with that bitch Karen calling in, or walking in, every Thursday after she gets her nails done to bitch about you.
My bet? They are going to try and offer money for community gardens and urban farms as some kind of food initiative "for people of color" or "disadvantaged communities" so on. Which there is probably a LOT of money to grab if you know how to do their paperwork.
The trade off, they know about your garden, so if they decided you have to suddenly meet commercial USDA criteria, or pay taxes, yah...
So this one is on you. Do you want federal money to grow your garden in exchange to being subject to their dominion. Probably not for a private garden.
That said, absolutely yes get permits from your local county or city if you do go about making a private, personal food garden. Too many horror stories out there about pencil-neck bureaucrats sending bulldozer teams to raze somebody's suburban garden because Karen down the street complained it will ruin their property value to have anything but lawn behind your house. But if you got a permit from the local authority, they will enjoy telling Karen to pound sand, see permit, she can go fuck herself, to honor her request would be work they don't wanna do, like going to court to challenge your permit. Because the inverse is true if you don't have a permit, you become the easier one to fuck over because calling the city workers to rip up your garden is easier than putting up with that bitch Karen calling in, or walking in, every Thursday after she gets her nails done to bitch about you.