[Sybeck1]

Growing up I used to sell corn out of my dad’s truck. Man, I miss the 80’s.

[Red_Devil 232]

Gardening Ping

[Terry Mross]

Bought some fresh vegetables and fruit from a guy on the side of the road in Rhode Island. Said his grandson was the 7th generation to live on the land going back to the 1700’s. He “moved” the food from one part of the land to another part. Wonder if he’s included.

I buy fresh vegetables every year. The reason they’re so much better than “store bought” is the fact that they AREN’T put the through the mill by the government.

[truth_seeker]

Farmers’ Markets are pretty popular in America’s Number 1 agriculture state-California.

http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?st=5&ty=1&nm=

I would say if somebody visited these markets, a lot of voters pushed the Obama chad.

I also expect they would want him to leave their little markets alone.

They will probably opine that their markets supply food that is much safer than the chain grocery stores.

[FlashBack]

Gov. ‘Will Tax’ (one of my nicer names) left our State in a financial mess and now he’s going nation-wide...ugh!

[Pallas]

This could inspire even the crunchy granola liberals to form a pitchfork platoon! They might find themselves shoulder to shoulder with the Amish! “Throw me down the stairs my pitchfork, Springblossom, Gott that is a veird name you haf!” LOL.

[Uncle Miltie]

Civil Disobedience Ping!

[brownsfan]

This is good. The more people that have their lives disrupted, even ruined by Obama, that will just be more people who won’t vote Democrat again anytime soon.

And while many farmers are conservatives, Obama had to get a substatial number of votes from farmers.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

This is ‘change’ that’s going to push us even FURTHER underground and develop a Black Market for fruits and vegetables.

I’ll go down swinging, as will the market growers, farmers, dairymen and milk/herbal soap makers I have as friends and those I sell to at my garden center.

I printed out and read the ENTIRE H.R.875 the other day. I’m not TOO worried as I highlighted the things that would harm local growers and markets. There were only a few sentences that deserved highlighting, so time will tell what the actual bill will look like when it’s in final form. Wonder if it’ll get any debate on the Senate floor? I kinda doubt it, the way things are sneaked past us in the wee hours by THE WORST CONGRESS EVER these days. Grrrrr!

Forewarned is forearmed. I’ll be passing out copies to any of my customers concerned enough to read one. :)

[the anti-liberal]

The farmer’s market here in Ashland, OR is a pretty big deal every year - and everyone in this town voted for the big Zero. It’ll be interesting to see how they respond.

[JerseyHighlander]

Insight into society

Domesday Book reveals an elaborate feudal structure of landholding from the King down. Under the feudal system land was supposedly held directly or indirectly from the King who stood at the top of the feudal ladder. The King granted land called fiefs to the tenants-in-chief beneath him - his chief barons, bishops and abbots. This was partly as a reward for helping him to conquer the kingdom, partly to keep their loyalty, and partly to ensure that certain difficult geographical areas were being securely held for him. In return he received their loyalty and service. This service usually came in the form of supplying the King with a number of men-at-arms and knights for a specific period should he wish to raise an army. In turn the barons could parcel out the land given to them to their own sub-tenants who likewise owed them loyalty and service – again usually military. Domesday is thus more than a legal and fiscal document. It is also a feudal record in which the description of the land follows the feudal hierarchy.

The social hierarchy with the King at the top. Under the feudal system he granted lands to his tenants-in-chief below in return for various services, usually military. The tenants-in-chief likewise granted lands to their tenants (sub-tenants).

Apart from the feudal structure Domesday also gives the

• Names of landholders in each county
• Manors which they held and their values
• Names of their sub-tenants
• Names of many boroughs and details of their customs
• Number of freemen, sokemen, unfree peasants and slaves on each manor
• Resources of each manor

By analysing the vast amounts of information we discover that in 1086 that:

• The King and his family held 17% of the land
• The bishops and abbots held 26% of the land
• Around 190 lay tenants held about 54% of the land
• Of the lay tenants, 12 or so leading barons controlled almost a quarter of the land
• There were only two Anglo-Saxon tenants-in-chief: Thorkhill of Arden and Coleswain of Lincoln with large estates
• The two most important women mentioned, Edward the Confessor’s widow and William’s queen, were both dead
• The most prominent living woman was Countess Judith, a niece of King William

Domesday Book provides details of:

• 13,418 places
• 48 castles including Windsor
• 112 boroughs
• Over 60 major religious houses
• Over 300 parish churches
• Around 6,000 mills (but no windmills)
• About 45 vineyards
• Various woodlands
• Numerous markets
• Several mints
• Inland and coastal fisheries
• And some industry including salt pans, lead working, quarries and potteries

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/discover-domesday/interpreting-domesday.htm

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We have new masters, but this specific form of oppression is a thousand years old in the Anglo-Saxon Western world.  Our great great grandchildren will have to fight once again for Magna Carta liberties.

[freekitty]

I have never seen a good one in Houston; but I remember good ones in Mineral Wells or Weatherford and somewhere in Dallas. I also remember those fabulous strawberries in Fresno, oranges, grapefruit and tomatoes.

[Gabz]

I don’t think this thing is going to go away anytime soon.........

Garden Ping.

[The Californian]

garden bump

[Luke21]

I have heard that they will eventually try to apply this monstrosity to backyard gardens, to control the growing of food. Funny that the SRM (state run media) came out with a story praising Michelle’s plans for a garden today.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Here’s the House Resolution in printable form. And, yes, your eyes WILL glaze over, so best to read it during morning hours with a fresh pot of coffee at your elbow. ;)

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875

Also note: the DEMOCRAT CongressRat that introduced this resolution is MARRIED to a guy who is high up in the Food Chain at Monsanto!

Yep. The huge-mongus seed company that’s been systematically working to put everyday farmers out of business for the past few decades. Grrrrr!

[JimRed]

A new source of jobs for the useless leftists; federal employment harassing anyone who does any kind of business without the mark of the beast.

Hopefully they’ll get treated like “revenooers” in the hills and hollers; shot at a lot. Might make it hard to get recruits!

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

One more step on the path toward total government control of all of the means of production. See the communist manifesto.

[2nd amendment mama]

I just saw Michelle O on the news digging her new White House garden. They said that the White House will use some of the produce and that the rest would be given to local soup kitchens. Hmmmm....wonder if the Dept. of Ag will make them get registered and inspected. LOL

[Ann Archy]

What abouth Obama’s new White House garden???????