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.
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.
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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.
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.