"White House going green with vegetable garden
WASHINGTON - The White House is getting a new garden.
Michelle Obama plans to break ground today on a garden on the South Lawn that will provide produce for the White House kitchen. She will be joined by students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District of Columbia, who will stay involved with the project, including planting fruits, vegetables, and herbs in the coming weeks and harvesting the crops later in the year.
Such a White House garden has been a dream of California chef Alice Waters, a leader in the movement to encourage consumption of locally grown, organic food. She has been appealing for change through the taste buds since the 1960s, and has lobbied Obama for the garden.
Yeah, THAT WOULD BE NICE if HE MEANT IT FOR US, too (see below)!!!!
Waters said yesterday she was thrilled by the news. "It just tells you that this country cares about people's good health and about the care of the land," she said.
Yeah, that's why the FDA is doing a bang-up job when it comes to food and drugs.
Pfffft!
And about 'bamer's agriculture policy:
"One of the ugliest things to be manifesting in the Obama portfolio in these first 50 days is the war against small farmers; against farmer’s markets, alternative and organic growers of produce. There’s more but I don’t want to spend my time laying out what you can get from the link. You can get some nice details in the preceding site’s forum about Congresswomen DeLauro and her husband Stan ‘the man’ Greenberg who pimps for Monsanto. And… you can learn all you need to know about Monsanto in this video.
Those of us who have followed the predatory operations of this evil empire know about Monsanto deliberately seeding farmland they want to seize; their powerful law firms and helicopter spy ships. When you factor in what genetically modified foods do to the human body well… it becomes apparent that there is some kind of plan by a collection of corporate and government interests to make humanity as stupid as the livestock they consume and to reduce their numbers by a frightening amount.....
--MORE"State farms prove fertile ground for exotic produce" by Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff | March 21, 2009
HOLYOKE - .... Farming in the state requires no license or permit, except for the use of certain pesticides or sale of some food products such as milk....
The state Office for Refugees and Immigrants launched a farming program two years ago when it saw a flood of asylum seekers with agrarian backgrounds. For all new small farmers, the state offers a business training program that has been so popular that classes have been expanded.
It's amazing. The STATE CARES MORE about IMMIGRANTS and ILLEGALS than CITIZENS -- and so does the agenda-pushing paper. I'm fucking sick of it and them, readers. That's why you get the swearing!!!!
A newer arrival to local agriculture is Lutfi Azizov, 39, a Meskhetian Turk who moved with his extended family to West Springfield in 2006. They came from Russia, the most recent stop for an agrarian people chased across Central Asia for generations by ethnic hatred and intolerance for their Muslim faith.
Now in Holyoke, Azizov motioned with his calloused hand at a snow-covered field at Nuestras Raices, a 30-acre farm along the Connecticut River where immigrants work incubator plots. The burly man with bushy black hair grew tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, and eggplants last summer that he sold to local pizzerias.
You know, the state isn't setting me up with land or a garden.
"My father farmed," Azizov said recently in Russian through a translator, recalling his own 15 acres in Krasnodar, near the north shore of the Black Sea. "My grandfather farmed. My great-grandfather farmed. Now I bring my kids to the farm to teach them."
The ethnic influence on farms has had a cross-pollination effect beyond immigrants....
Yeah, Lord help you if you say anything about the immigrants.
"Chief's immigration stance is criticized
Police Chief Robert DeMoura has drawn fire over recent comments in support of giving illegal immigrants access to driver's licenses. City Councilor Dean Tran told the Sentinel & Enterprise this week that he vehemently opposes the idea because in his eyes it rewards illegal behavior.
Yup, PUBLIC is OPPOSED to the ILLEGALS but you would NEVER KNOW THAT from the Globe's coverage of the issue.
And state Representative Stephen DiNatale, a Democrat, said he would not support such changes to state law until Congress overhauls immigration laws. DeMoura drew a standing ovation this week at an immigration forum when he said giving illegal immigrants driver's licenses would help his department with public safety (AP)."
How about SHIPPING THEM BACK HOME instead? WTF, CHIEF?
