I know there are other articles posted on this topic but I couldn't find them, so I am beginning a topic here.


Food freedom alert: Bureaucrats in Michigan threaten woman with jail time for planting vegetable garden in her own yard

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This story involves a woman named Julie Bass, whose front yard was dug up during sewer line construction. After the construction project was completed, instead of planting grass, she thought it would be far more practical to plant a vegetable garden

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None of this seems to matter to Kevin Rulkowski, the city planner for the city of Oak Park, Michigan. ..., he complains in a video news report that Julie Bass's garden is in violation of city code and Julie has to dig up her entire garden or face punitive enforcement actions by the city (which could include jail time).

City code says, "All unpaved portions of the site shall be planted with grass, shrubbery or other suitable live plant material."

But city planner Kevin Rulkowski... proclaims, "If you look in Webster's dictionary, suitable means common. And you can look all throughout the entire city and you'll never find a vegetable garden that consumes the entire front yard."

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So now Julie Bass is facing a jury trial and possible jail time for daring to stand up to the tyranny of miscreants like Kevin Rulkowski. The trial begins in a couple of weeks, and the outcome remains in doubt.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032960_Julie ... z1RuQ05unX

(Actions that can be taken to help Ms. Bass are listed at the above link.)

Signs of the times Rutsuyasun.
I'm not surprised, as my research 20 years ago indicated that this would happen.
That home food producers would be curtailed and home-remedies would be met with prosecution for "practicing medicine without a license". All this is happening now.

Thank you for the post. It's a good one.

Trex.

What a total waste of taxpayer dollars and resources.

Sounds like my homeowner's association Nazi's taken to the nth degree.

Stupid, stupid, stupid!

I have to grow a short variety of corn in my own backyard behind a fence because it is a violation of the HA rules for the corn to stick up over the fence.

How stupid is that?

Another attack on a home garden:

Another Front Yard Garden Deemed Illegal

The War on Americanism is moving forward again, not on some foreign battlefield, but in quiet neighborhoods in cities across the nation.

The City of Orlando is demanding that Jason Helvingston eradicate the vegetable garden planted in his front yard so that it can meet their code, which WKMG Local 6 says requires a “finished appearance,” in other words, a plain lawn covered in ordinary grass.

It is a matter of perceived property value versus that of property rights, the latter of which is clearly under attack.

Helvingston hasn’t given up. He told the city, ‘You’ll take my house before you take my vegetable garden.’

His neighbors say they like the 25 x 25 foot garden and are lobbying the city to change course. Helvingston has collected over 200 signatures from his community expressing support for the garden, and demanding that the city change its decision.

Resident Shelly Snow told cameras, “(I’m) definitely not bothered by it. As a matter of fact, we love it.”

Helvingston is scheduled to go before the city council next month to argue the matter.

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(In another case) Denise Morrison in Tulsa, Oklahoma sued after the city cut down her garden, planted in both her front and back yards, which grew more than 100 varieties of edible plants. Despite the fact that the woman met with city officials and was technically within the city’s code, which only prevent non-edible plants above 12 inches in height, the Tulsa demand that everything go. It even included several trees, targeted because they produced fruits and nuts.

con. http://www.infowars.com/another-front-y ... d-illegal/

Like Blue said above a complete waste of Tax Dollars!! But I personally think it has a far more subtle intention in that the Secret Control Establishment do not want people to be self sufficient....

Big Brother at the Extreme!

Stupid damn bureaucrats!

Sorry for cussing!

This just gets my goat to no end. We constantly fight the busybodies in our home owner's association, too.

Yes, I knew when I bought the house that there were rules about the front yard and no chickens allowed, no RV's parked in yards, yada yada yada.

Okay, I get it about property values, etc.

But some of these nosey nellies and nosey norberts are just intent on taking "the rules" too far.

There have been some terrible fights in our home owner's association. Last time one of the home owner's stood up in the meeting and said:

"Citizen's arrest! Citizen's arrest!"

in a perfect Jim Nabors' imitation.

For those of you who have never seen the old Andy Griffith Show - Don Knotts played the deputy sheriff Barney Fife who was full of self importance. In one episode, Barney gives Jim Nabors (Gomer) a ticket for making an illegal U-Turn, but when Barney does it, Gomer yells "CITIZINS ARREST!" Gomer said Barney did something illegal himself. Andy agrees, and says that he'd be happy to pay the money for Barney's own ticket. Barney locks himself in jail, and decides to quit.

It is one of the most hysterical episodes of the whole show!

I nearly died laughing and so did a whole bunch of other folks at the home owner's meeting.

Of course they don't they are losing dollars if we all become self sufficient,

Thank Christ I found a fruit market with all homegrown foods in it my stomach stopped hurting It was so bad one time I thought I had appendicitis SERIOUSLY!

Now I have to clean out the potato basket as the potatoes have sprouted at Least I know they are not genetically modified the little bits of dirt have managed to fertilize them!

Use them to make Chips fr33k!

Old taters are cool for chips....

Sedgwick, Maine is first town to declare total food sovereignty, opposing state and federal laws

Monday, March 25, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes

There is a food revolution taking hold all over America, whether it is in the form of demanding labeling of GM foods, the right to produce and sell raw milk and other commodities, or - in the case of Sedgwick, Maine - declaring all local food transactions of any kind free and legal.

According to the website FoodRenegade.com, Sedgwick is the first city in the U.S. to free itself from the constraints of federal and state food regulation. Published reports say the town has passed an ordinance that gives its citizens the right "to produce, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing," regulations be damned. The ordinance includes raw milk, meats that are slaughtered locally, all produce and just about anything else you might imagine.

And what's more, three additional towns in Maine are expected to take up similar ordinances soon, said the FoodRenegade.com.

Gee - good, ol' fashioned buyer-seller agreements?

Observers of the Sedgwick ordinance say it is much more than just "statement" legislation. Writes blogger David Grumpert, at TheCompletePatient.com:

This isn't just a declaration of preference. The proposed warrant added, "It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance." In other words, no state licensing requirements prohibiting certain farms from selling dairy products or producing their own chickens for sale to other citizens in the town.

What about potential legal liability and state or federal inspections? It's all up to the seller and buyer to negotiate. "Patrons purchasing food for home consumption may enter into private agreements with those producers or processors of local foods to waive any liability for the consumption of that food. Producers or processors of local foods shall be exempt from licensure and inspection requirements for that food as long as those agreements are in effect." Imagine that-buyer and seller can agree to cut out the lawyers. That's almost un-American, isn't it?

Con. www.naturalnews.com/039633_Sedgwick_foo ... _laws.html

USDA agricultural census program is a covert surveillance operation to compile government database of food and farm assets

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

(NaturalNews) The USDA "census of agriculture" is a government-run farm surveillance program designed to register and inventory detailed private data on farm assets, operations and personnel. A census form is mailed to each farmer in the United States, accompanied by threats of compliance and a warning that farmers who do not comply will be visited in person by government agents.

These agricultural census forms -- see a link to a scanned copy below -- demands farmers reveal the following information, all of which is compiled into a vast government database:

(A list of the info farmers have to fill out can be found at the link.)

All this information will be used to seize farms as already approved under Obama
Most Americans don't yet realize that President Obama has already signed an executive order declaring government ownership and control over all farms, food, livestock, seeds, farm equipment and more. I've covered that news in full detail here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama ... _supply....

The executive order is published at WhiteHouse.gov:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-off ... ve-order...

Just over a year ago, on March 16, 2012, President Obama issued this executive order entitled, "NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS."

This executive order states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done "to promote the national defense" -- a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything.

More details in complete article here: http://www.naturalnews.com/039652_USDA_ ... lance.html