USDA Now Asking People to Register Their Vegetable Gardens for National Database

[Elderberry]

Free Thought Project by Matt Agorist 10/4/2022

Why does the USDA want you to add your local vegetable garden to a national database?

In a move that has many folks scratching their heads, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its push for the People’s Garden Initiative which now includes registering vegetable gardens nationwide. According to the USDA, the move is to foster a "more diverse and resilient local food system to empower communities to address issues like nutrition access and climate change." But those who have been following the USDA closely for years know that they couldn't care less about your health and nutrition.

To register your garden with the USDA, one must meet several easily obtainable standards.

    School gardens, community gardens, urban farms, and small-scale agriculture projects in rural, suburban and urban areas can be recognized as a “People’s Garden” if they register on the USDA website and meet criteria including benefitting the community, working collaboratively, incorporating conservation practices and educating the public.

These standards essentially define every community garden in the country. Now, the government organization that shells out billions every year to companies whose products, like high-fructose corn syrup, are responsible for a massive epidemic of obesity across the planet, will have a database of them.

More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/usda-now-asking-people-to-register-their-vegetable-gardens-for-national-database


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[EdinVA]

Have they printed up the ration coupons yet?

[rustynail]

It's a trap.

[andy58-in-nh]

Yeah, that's it - you can be the proud owner of a "People's Garden".

In a People's Republic.

[roamer_1]

I have been pondering distributed gardening... A little here, a little there... Might have to experiment with that...

[EdinVA]

If you fail to voluntarily register your garden are you to expect a visit from the DOJ storm troopers...

[GtHawk]

If you fail to voluntarily register your garden are you to expect a visit from the DOJ storm troopers...

No, I think the department of agriculture has their own storm troopers now. Remember the words of Marx comrade! Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" And our current ledership believes that there are are a great many sloths that need/deserve what you have worked hard for more than you.

[sneakypete]

EXCELLENT IDEA!

That way when the Dims finish trashing the economy and we go broke,our masters can raid your gardens so they can feed themselves and their pets.

After all,once Martial Law is in place,you own nothing and the government owns everything,so what right do YOU have to the veggies you grew,you selfish  pr*ck!

[sneakypete]

If you fail to voluntarily register your garden are you to expect a visit from the DOJ storm troopers...

@EdinVA

Promises,promises,promises.

[BellyAche]

A wonderful use of resources no doubt.  They want a tally of tomatoes and cucumbers???  Or they want to make sure of who is growing cannabis?  It's just so odd.  We're entering an alternative universe. 

[EdinVA]

A wonderful use of resources no doubt.  They want a tally of tomatoes and cucumbers???  Or they want to make sure of who is growing cannabis?  It's just so odd.  We're entering an alternative universe. 

And just think how many people the feds can hire to track all of that good ole info....

[EdinVA]

@EdinVA

Promises,promises,promises.

@sneakypete
lol.... maybe we can get a database of socialists..... 

[Free Vulcan]

Just in case we have to collectivize them later after we completely and deliberately screw up the economy, so we know where they are at.

No self sufficiency for you!

[sneakypete]

And just think how many people the feds can hire to track all of that good ole info....

@EdinVA

And the gooberment LOVES hiring them because it gives them more Storm Troopers in the  upcoming war of "Us against them".

[Killer Clouds]

Do not register anything you don't have to with the government.

[Smokin Joe]

I have been pondering distributed gardening... A little here, a little there... Might have to experiment with that...

I'm going to have to do that just to kill off the creeping jenny in my usual plot. It took over with a vengeance this year, and I've had enough. So I will go to raised beds around the place next year, and over the stumps of two trees I had to take out this year, while I do my best to eliminate the creeping jenny.

[mountaineer]

They're after my Swiss chard, I just know it!

[DefiantMassRINO]

1.) Is it an incremental Deep State step towards farm collectivization?

2.) Is it a Big Ag initiative to foist GMO seed and toxic herbicides and pestisides onto unsuspecting organic hippies?

3.) Is it an attempt to become more relevant in urban Congressional districts to secure more Congressional support, votes, and funding?

4.) Is this a precursor to a five day waiting period for purchasing plant seed?

5.) Could this be a ploy to juice statistical agricultural reports by including numbers from "People's Gardens"?

6.) Is it a scheme to perpetuate dependence on Nanny Government by subsuming these small, local, self-reliant initiatives to make them dependent upon USDA funding, and thereby, USDA regualtion and control?

Bureaucrats have a million reasons to create these schemes.  It all goes back to money and power.

[sneakypete]

1.) Is it an incremental Deep State step towards farm collectivization?

2.) Is it a Big Ag initiative to foist GMO seed and toxic herbicides and pestisides onto unsuspecting organic hippies?

3.) Is it an attempt to become more relevant in urban Congressional districts to secure more Congressional support, votes, and funding?

4.) Is this a precursor to a five day waiting period for purchasing plant seed?

5.) Could this be a ploy to juice statistical agricultural reports by including numbers from "People's Gardens"?

6.) Is it a scheme to perpetuate dependence on Nanny Government by subsuming these small, local, self-reliant initiatives to make them dependent upon USDA funding, and thereby, USDA regualtion and control?

Bureaucrats have a million reasons to create these schemes.  It all goes back to money and power.

@DefiantMassRINO

Truer words were never written or spoken!

[catfish1957]

Registering  anything needlessly with the federal government is utter stupidity.

Don't forget.....  their enforcement arm (The DOJ/FBI) is the largest crime organization in the country.  100,000 strong.

[Fishrrman]

First came "Waters of the United States".

Up next: "Gardens of the United States".