Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL

You do not have to SPEAK FRENCH to qualify for FRENCH FARMING.

Simply ,you can start gardening in a SMALL space and still harvest MORE,the intensive way! 

The Name French farming came from WW-II as the FRENCH started growing crops in their backyards to fill in the gap after farmers were enlisted and drafted.There was a shortage in produce and THE FRENCH Re-invented the BACKYARD FARMING by growing intensive in small spaces.They used composted manure and organic ammendments .They used rainbarrels and old farming methods that did not depend on machines.

They used to sell their products at the Village Market .There was NO CHARGE for their stands.The government wanted to help so they came and traded and bartered in the begining when money was rare to find.

They worked during the DEPRESSION times and all had bread at the table and no one was homeless or starved in the streets.They had this COMMUNITY FEELING ,so they helped each others in the backyard gardening PROCESS.

That was a COMMUNITY  way of life that we need to draw lessons from ,in retrospect or contrast to our own way of life that is governed by :STACKING MONEY or  STOCKS  !

What we need in our times a spirit of FRENCH FARMING.I go to the green market or farmers market and find NO LOCAL FARMWERS.I was one who tried by all means to have a stand and was pushed aside and denied a stand because the peopkle who run some of those markets which I tried in my area are MERCHANT MINDED.

They bring in the grocery stores who bring in the conventional produce from Mexico and other states SHIPPED and falsley claimed to be FRESH.

I sent letters to commissioners and asked for help for subsidies and support for small farmers to display their produce for FREE in a VILLAGE like markets.They call them "Thursday Markets" in France and Europe.Farmers are required to pay $ 100-150  per stand per month at the Green Markets.They barely make money selling radishes or parsley for .99 cents ...or plants in small 6" containers for $1.50 cents!

The mainstream media rushes to paint green and Organic most of those produce that are imported and sprayed with all kinds of fertilizers and pesiticides.This is the REALITY which the main stream media never publishes because they are fed by the Agr-Business advertizing money!

Bloggers now are flourishing because they are being published and edited by REAL FARMERS who are denied the VISIBILITY either in the mainstream media or the green market.

The new administration did well by starting an ORGANIC vegetabkle garden at the White House.The new administration deserves our applaud for initiating a baby step towards RECOGNIZING the IMPORTANCE of HOME GROWN FRUITS and VEGETABLES.They need our votes in the coming elections and we need their  ATTENTION NOW to send us STIMULUS MONEY.

They need to send it  NOT to the City and County officials or Commissioners for SOME of them are either in Jail or being  investigated for CORRUPTION.I say SOME and not ALL!SEEING IS BELEIVING:Come and inspect those Community gardens that were ERAZED,NEGLECTED  or DENIED budget money.

Come and inspect those farms that are being swallowed or  washed away by developers.Come and see for yourself how the small family/urban farmers live in dire need for help  !We are the weakest chain- link  in the FOOD CHAIN!A healthy nation needs a local  farmer more than an engineer or astraunout.So , show Carera the money!

They need to send direct STIMULUS HELP  to those small  family/urban farmers that have been DENIED THE RIGHT TO EXIST OR SELL OR PROSPER through a chain saw of laws that are CONTRIBUTING to  NULLIFYING their VERY EXISTENCE.There are new elections coming up in 2010.So let us farmers send our letters of concern about the new laws being drafted to silence and shut down family and small farmers.Let us make the call now while HR 2749 is still being contemplated at the Senate floor.We small farmers need to come in UNISON and why not form a UNION...A small Farmers/Urban farmers union to make our voice heard in a culture of lobbiests and special interest groups.This is Democracy in action when we practice our constitutional rights of speach and what have you.

We need to get inspired by the FRENCH FARMING just like we did when this nation fought for its INDEPENDENCE from OCCUPATION.

Is there a new kind of CONTROL sugar coated by laws that try to steal the LIVELIHOOD of Familyand small farmers?We are being forced to eat food grown on sludge or HUMAN SHIT.We are being forced(read the news of  New York health workers protesting the MANDATORY VACCINE)to get( PIGS!) SWINE FLU  vaccinations!.We are kept in the dark by a mainstream media that keeps feeding us food for thought news about EARTHQUAKES-MURDER-WARS .We are brain washed by Hollywood movies that promote violence-blood letting , FEAR and ANIMATION FICTION .Where is the TRUTH?Where are the FACTS being hidden from us?When will be the right time for us to wake up to the facts that our basic human rights to grow our own food are under seige?

Call it AMERICAN FARMING and start digging your own backyard and get inspired by the French who helped this nation win its INDEPENDENCE .The least we can say: They gave us the Statue of Liberty...the rest is left for us to make right our own STATUTES especially the ones that govern our LIVELIHOOD as FARMERS:WE THE PEOPLE  ARE THE KEEPERS OF THE LAND and GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS OUR FARMER FOUNDING FATHER AND PRESIDENT!So, Help us GOD!