I thought this was crazy so I looked into it. They are asking people to register their community and education gardens that "benefit the public" through education programs. It has nothing to do with private gardens.
I looked up the ones registered near me and they are all University extensions, places where you can go to get soil tests and talk about what grows in the area.
Just a trial run before they enforce it on private individuals with home gardens.
What purpose does registration serve? How does that benefit the public? It doesn’t. It benefits the government.
Remember when Gov Whitmer banned the sale of seeds during the covid lockdowns? What was the threat? The virus isn’t spread through seeds or a home garden.
Correct. As with turn-in-your-neighbor mask efforts and others, the key here is to flood their system with garbage data. Do this every time they try and do the surveillance state, about any issue.
The people need to know everything their government is trying to do; the government has no right to know everything the people are doing.
So we refuse to register anything or just say we are growing a new crop of guns, AR15s to be exact, oh and Glocks. They are so dumb they might believe it.
It was unbelievable that my Michigan neighbor insisted that there was never a seed ban. But I had photos and a Detroit Freepress article saying otherwise. Admittedly, the ban only lasted for one day...
She didn't ban the sale of seeds, she just declared the garden centers as not necessary, it was a stupid move that she immediately undid a few days later. The ban was more to keep people from hanging out in stores than from buying seeds.
The registry, as far as I can tell, helps develop community education spots and can lead to funding for them. I run my church's outreach garden where we educate people and offer seedlings and seeds for free for home gardens. When I looked into it, they offered no benefit to sign up, so I didn't bother to register.
This is just supply and demand. I own a 12 acre farm and mostly grow seedling potatoes for resale to smaller farmers and the increase I've seen in the past year has been insane. Three years ago I sold $375k worth of seedling potatoes and that was pretty much what I did every year going back about 10 years. Two years ago I sold $425k and decided I needed to raise prices a bit so I could expand and grow more. In 2021 I planted double what I usually did and raised prices a bit and ended the year selling just shy of $1m worth of seedlings.
My daughters do a lot of the non-tractor work, it's their day job to do the marketing, shipping, and sales and stuff. They both went to college and got PhDs in literature and media or something and couldn't find jobs, so I put them to work here. I do most of the planting and actual logistics of keeping the plants alive.
I also have a 10 acre plot across the street where I grow organic certified watermelons on half the plot and the other plot is a soil/compost lot where I make organic compost for local gardeners which pays really really well. My 5-acre plot of compost makes almost as much money as my potato seedlings.
In town I recently bought the independent coffee shop when it was about to close down. I revamped how it runs and it makes decent money now. It's mostly a place for kids to hang out since all the other places in town closed down.
In my backyard I have a 1500 sq ft garden where I grow the food that my family eats most of the year, we do a lot of canning and preserves. We also have 25 chickens and a few turkeys for meat and eggs and this year I'm raising two hogs because I wanted to learn how to slaughter a pig myself. If that goes well I may get a cow next season. My neighbor says it's a slippery slope when you get into livestock - I think he's just saying that because he wants me to buy his 30 acre lot where he has sheep.
You sir are #winning. I hope to have a fraction of that going for me within the next 5 years. I dont know how they slaughter pigs in the states but where im from we carry them on our backs down the mountain. Then we cut their jugular and collect the blood draining for blood sausage. Next comes scalding hot water to shave the hair off them. After gutting they roast the whole hog on a spit for a few hrs. Pretty gruesome and probably totally not how you are planning to do things but thats the only way Ive known.
I have been talking to my wife more about it... how are you watering all this land area? I need to find a piece of property but thats my biggest challenge
If you register your garden they will require you to bring what you grow to the community food bank or they will accuse you of hoarding.... mark my words
No doubt. Trying to make people register they have a garden is government control run amock, hopefully it wakes some people up.
I thought this was crazy so I looked into it. They are asking people to register their community and education gardens that "benefit the public" through education programs. It has nothing to do with private gardens.
I looked up the ones registered near me and they are all University extensions, places where you can go to get soil tests and talk about what grows in the area.
Just a trial run before they enforce it on private individuals with home gardens.
What purpose does registration serve? How does that benefit the public? It doesn’t. It benefits the government.
Remember when Gov Whitmer banned the sale of seeds during the covid lockdowns? What was the threat? The virus isn’t spread through seeds or a home garden.
Correct. As with turn-in-your-neighbor mask efforts and others, the key here is to flood their system with garbage data. Do this every time they try and do the surveillance state, about any issue.
The people need to know everything their government is trying to do; the government has no right to know everything the people are doing.
So we refuse to register anything or just say we are growing a new crop of guns, AR15s to be exact, oh and Glocks. They are so dumb they might believe it.
Hello hotline? I'd like to register a farm growing goats guns. :p
😂🤣they are so oxymoronic, they might believe it. Oh, and post that all Trespassers who are not friends, family, neighbors will be shot
It was unbelievable that my Michigan neighbor insisted that there was never a seed ban. But I had photos and a Detroit Freepress article saying otherwise. Admittedly, the ban only lasted for one day...
There was. People weren't allowed to buy seeds at the beginning of the "pandemic"
I broke past many store barriers to buy "forbidden" goods.
She didn't ban the sale of seeds, she just declared the garden centers as not necessary, it was a stupid move that she immediately undid a few days later. The ban was more to keep people from hanging out in stores than from buying seeds.
The registry, as far as I can tell, helps develop community education spots and can lead to funding for them. I run my church's outreach garden where we educate people and offer seedlings and seeds for free for home gardens. When I looked into it, they offered no benefit to sign up, so I didn't bother to register.
I have noticed some seeds have become more difficult to find. Namely for staple crops.
This is just supply and demand. I own a 12 acre farm and mostly grow seedling potatoes for resale to smaller farmers and the increase I've seen in the past year has been insane. Three years ago I sold $375k worth of seedling potatoes and that was pretty much what I did every year going back about 10 years. Two years ago I sold $425k and decided I needed to raise prices a bit so I could expand and grow more. In 2021 I planted double what I usually did and raised prices a bit and ended the year selling just shy of $1m worth of seedlings.
Nice
This is goals...you run it all by yourself with one tractor or what? I need to get up to speed on what youre doing.
My daughters do a lot of the non-tractor work, it's their day job to do the marketing, shipping, and sales and stuff. They both went to college and got PhDs in literature and media or something and couldn't find jobs, so I put them to work here. I do most of the planting and actual logistics of keeping the plants alive.
I also have a 10 acre plot across the street where I grow organic certified watermelons on half the plot and the other plot is a soil/compost lot where I make organic compost for local gardeners which pays really really well. My 5-acre plot of compost makes almost as much money as my potato seedlings.
In town I recently bought the independent coffee shop when it was about to close down. I revamped how it runs and it makes decent money now. It's mostly a place for kids to hang out since all the other places in town closed down.
In my backyard I have a 1500 sq ft garden where I grow the food that my family eats most of the year, we do a lot of canning and preserves. We also have 25 chickens and a few turkeys for meat and eggs and this year I'm raising two hogs because I wanted to learn how to slaughter a pig myself. If that goes well I may get a cow next season. My neighbor says it's a slippery slope when you get into livestock - I think he's just saying that because he wants me to buy his 30 acre lot where he has sheep.
You sir are #winning. I hope to have a fraction of that going for me within the next 5 years. I dont know how they slaughter pigs in the states but where im from we carry them on our backs down the mountain. Then we cut their jugular and collect the blood draining for blood sausage. Next comes scalding hot water to shave the hair off them. After gutting they roast the whole hog on a spit for a few hrs. Pretty gruesome and probably totally not how you are planning to do things but thats the only way Ive known.
I have been talking to my wife more about it... how are you watering all this land area? I need to find a piece of property but thats my biggest challenge
Deeming something nonessential is no different from a ban — just as preventing people from going to gyms, churches, etc.
The only reason for reversal was because of public outcry and media attention.
The rationale that it was some social distancing measure to keep people from hanging out in stores isn’t even remotely logical.
Again, it was a test balloon just like the Paypal fine.
They will do whatever they can get away with — making it seem innocent or even “for the public good” when it’s anything but.
Slippery slope.
Yeah but I’m sure soon it will be the private individual farms too
Why do you think that?
Because of all the evil they are currently pulling in citizens and trying to tKe away our rights and freedoms and ability to provide for ourselves
I've been working with the USDA for 40 years and it's almost all the same people there. They don't give a shit who is in charge at the moment.
If you register your garden they will require you to bring what you grow to the community food bank or they will accuse you of hoarding.... mark my words
...and racism...
We need to build force fields over our gardens and farms quick!
They’ll just use drones flying over neighborhoods as a method of surveillance, and then slap people with fines for failure to register.
My sincere hatred for these corrupt globalist mf’ers gets more intense every day, and their demise can’t come soon enough 😤
Drones nothing, MSP has been doing daily heli flyovers since the start of the plandemic.
Nope won't do it. I grow an annual garden of veggies and herbs and NO WAY am I going to "register" it with anyone. This is just tyranny.