Posted on 10/30/2009 12:44:49 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Not at all ,, just reminded of the serious errors Michelle Obama made in planting in an area polluted by heavy metal milorganite residue at the white house ,, you just know the "impact studies" alone would cost more than the veggies they could grow in 50 years on those plots..
That and I just don't understand why you would bother farming in an unsuitable location (COLD , short growing season with minimal UV , land probably shaded by surrounding buildings ) with people that have no background in farming. That is what we call a recipe for disaster.
If you want to grow something get the Feds to open up the North shore of lake Apopka to no-till farming ... right now it is out of production while they try to get the lake rehabbed.. You could grow more food in that area alone than if you used every square inch of land in urban PA cities and NY and Boston combined.
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Yep ,, thats where all the jobs for new hires at EPA come in ... just imagine if a building they leveled had a buried fuel oil tank or if the inspectors had even one soil sample show lead where one tired painter spilled a gallon of lead based paint 50 years ago...
That and I just don't understand why you would bother farming in an unsuitable location (COLD , short growing season with minimal UV , land probably shaded by surrounding buildings ) with people that have no background in farming. That is what we call a recipe for disaster.
LOL! Sounds like your head has been baking in the tropical sun for too long.
I agree, nobody in Pittsburgh is going to successfully grow coffee or bananas or citrus fruit or crops like that,
but when I grew up there during the '50s and '60s there was still plenty of farming going on in the surrounding area.
In fact, the suburban neighborhood I grew up in had previously been an old apple orchard. So in addition to having an infinite supply of apples at our disposal, we also had peaches, plums and cherries we could go out into the backyard and pick. Not to mention the "wild" blackberries that grew in many of the vacant fields that used to be farms.
And in our backyard garden, we didn't have any difficulty growing tomatoes, corn, beans, peas, onions, cabbage, cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, peppers, squash, strawberries or most other "normal" veggies somebody might want to grow in a backyard garden. (Well corn was a PITA because it took up too much room in the garden. We only grew it once, just because we could. But it was easier to buy a bushel from some local farmer who had a roadside stand, and use our garden space for other veggies.)
Granted, the season might be a little short for some items, so it helps to build a little makeshift "cold frame" to protect the little seedlings in spring. But it's not like people don't know how to do it.
Food is ALWAYS best when grown locally.
And homegrown tomatoes ALWAYS taste better than anything you can buy in a store.
“What are they going to do? Use eminent domain to take property off honest, law-abiding citizens and make collective farms out of it?”
A minor detail, comrade!
But, yeah, these idiots forget/ignore that these “vacant lots” actually belong to people who are, presumably, paying taxes on them.
If they’ve been seized for back taxes or otherwise belong to the city, then have at it.
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