[cripplecreek]

About the only thing American left are the seeds

I use mostly heirloom seeds. One of these days the feds are gonna swoop down and arrest me and a whole busload of little old ladies who are part of the seed trading ring.

Just the other day, Mildred said she would hook me up with some Budget Booster tomato seeds next spring if I could score some Broomsdale spinach seed for her.

[Viking2002]

Yeah, I'm really getting to appreciate heirloom seeds and my catalogs are starting to arrive in the mail now. Just got a new John Scheepers catalog last week, in fact. And that bit about the feds is no joke - the Ag weenies pack heat, now. Can't sell raw milk. Some states even ban rainwater collection. They'll be coming for our squash next.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920