I would be wary of what you read in Natural News. I agree we need to become more self sustaining, and to create and support local food systems that do not rely on commodity crops. I also agree that what the government is doing to raw milk producers and consumers is overreaching. But please take the news from that news resource with a grain of salt! It has a pretty radical outlook. My two cents... Amy Peters Sustainable Sea Cliff Cooperative www.seacliffcoop.org
On Mar 20, 2012, at 6:45 PM, Diann Dirks wrote: > Dear Becky and Karen, > This goes along with the concept that a few corporations are trying to > control all food production. And as of a few days ago, I got an email that > said a recent executive order put all food production just got put under > gov't control http://www.naturalnews.com/ . So, what we are doing to try to > put everyone back on a self-sustaining basis, and to restore the earth to a > pure state is under attack from so many directions. Therefore, we must keep > pushing our agenda of food liberty and self-sustainability forward, and > realize we are not living in Kansas anymore, Toto. > Di > ----- Original Message ----- From: "becky stinson" <riverhe...@earthlink.net> > To: <community_garden@list.communitygarden.org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:38 PM > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Black list Scotts Miracle Grow > > >> thanks for this Karen......please know that Scott's now 'owns' a huge >> majority of garden care products geared towards homeowners. Including Ortho, >> and Whitney Farms......they are busy buying up 'green' companies or at least >> the patents on certain products, I believe, including Round Up. Please do >> the research, they are trying to look green while taking over the world of >> garden care products....their mission and ethics may not really be in sync >> with what we all do growing food organically and promoting safe clean >> habitat for plants and animals we share the planet with...buy local or make >> your own, know who you are really giving your money to....... >> Thanks for all you all are doing. >> ~Becky Stinson >> >> Guemes Island, Wa. >> >> On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Karen Jones wrote: >> >>> I guess I am cynical enough to not be surprised that Scotts Miracle Grow >>> people actually sold poison bird seed, knowingly. >>> I recommend that the ACGa urge all members and all gardeners and certainly >>> anyone who loves our fine feathered friends to blacklist Scotts Miracle >>> Grow. Put them out of business. Now. >>> >>> The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. >>> Barry Commoner >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: >>> <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20120320/27a31cdb/attachment.html> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of >>> ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to >>> find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org >>> >>> To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org >>> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: >>> http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's >> services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find >> out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org >> >> To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: >> http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > > > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's > services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out > how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20120320/2c40b752/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
