Earlier this year, the USDA solicited submachine guns. The United States Department of Agriculture! This is an agency tasked with regulating agriculture… and they asked for submachine guns. My question: Why would an agency created to regulate farmers require automatic weapons?
Win An Alaskan Adventure For Two With Me (over $4000 value)
I have always wanted to go to Alaska. Next July, I’ll finally be going. And I’ll be taking one of you lucky readers (and a guest of your choosing) with me.
Colorado Trip Winner & Monica Corrado’s Cooking School
One of you lucky readers won a trip to Colorado with me to attend Monica Corrado’s cooking school! Thanks to your generosity, we managed to raise $10,435.00 for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. You guys! I am utterly speechless. When I set the $10K fundraising goal, I thought it was total pie-in-the-sky thinking. BUT YOU DID IT.
Win A Trip to Colorado With Me ($2600 Value)
If you could spend two minutes of your life to do something to make it easier for you to support your local farmers, would you? If you could donate money to a well-managed fund that helps provide small farmers with the legal counsel they need to respond to overzealous government regulators, would you? I would. And I do. My absolute favorite non-profit to support is the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. And because I wholeheartedly support their cause, I am co-sponsoring a fundraiser for the Fund from now to December 16th. It’s a raffle. The prize? An all-expenses paid trip for you to attend Chef Monica Corrado’s cooking school with me at Sunrise Ranch, CO this coming February.
A Farm-To-Fork Fiasco
Imagine this. An over-zealous regulator shows up at a farm-to-fork dinner hosted by your favorite local farmer. But they’re not there to sample the exquisite cuisine highlighting some of the most natural, nutrient-dense, life-giving foods on the planet. No, they’re demanding that the food be destroyed while hungry, paying guests wait.
If you were that farmer, how would you respond? This is the story of Laura Bledsoe of Quail Hollow Farm. And, hopefully, it’s a lesson to all of us.
Who Will Defend Our Farmers?
These days, our farmers face a growing threat. It’s not drought or colony collapse disorder, either. It’s our government. The very government created to protect their liberty is instead launching lengthy undercover investigations into their practices, raiding family homes at gunpoint in the early morning hours, and passing financially impossible legislation that doesn’t scale down to small, artisanal producers.
Who will defend our farmers? Who will fight their legal battles in court? Make persuasive arguments for their constitutional rights? Give counsel when overly zealous government enforcers want to take liberties with warrants and court orders? The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, that’s who.