George Nemeth · Rally to support local farms, produce

December 2nd, 2008

Parts of an email from Carl @ Blue Pike Farm:

RALLY for the Chickens and the Bees.

Join your friends and Chicken Little, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Ducky Daddies, Goosey Poosey, Gander Pander, the Bee Babe and her friends for as rollicking good time in support of the proposed Cleveland legislation to relax the building code regulations restricting Chickens, Bees and other small critters. (Tom Turkey will not be available due to a death in the family).

Time: 2:00 P.M.
Day: Sunday
Date: December 7th, 2008
Location: Blue Pike Farm, 900 E. 72nd St. Cleveland (Between I-90 and St. Claire)

Bring your petitions, copies of your emails and your positive energy. We’ll collect all the support material and present it to Councilman Joe Cimperman on Monday morning, December 8th before the hearing on the legislation before the Cleveland City Council Committee of the Whole.

Bring the kids to play on Holly Hock Hill. Refreshments for the early birds.

After rewatching The End of Suburbia last night, these arguments (which I’ve emailed to Councilman Polensek) make sense:

Economic security; in these lean times raising your own food, veggies, chickens for eggs or meat, bees for honey etc. help stretch your families food budget. Maybe you could make a $ or $$ by selling some to your neighbors.

Food security; raising your own food helps insulate you and your loved ones from the contaminants in the industrial food chain (see i.e. this one about antibiotics in the U.S. meat supply; A direct relationship exists between food consumption levels and poverty. Families with the financial resources to escape extreme poverty rarely suffer from chronic hunger; while poor families not only suffer the most from chronic hunger, but are also the segment of the population most at risk during food shortages and famines. Or this about food scarcity:

Passage of the ordinance will help support local food initiatives.

Nothing could be safer than growing your own food, or purchasing locally grown foods.

One of the scarier points made in EoS is in our neighborhood, there’s about a 3 day supply of food. What can we do to increase the survivabililty/thrivability of North Collinwood? FYI, if you’d like to get together and watch The End of Suburbia let me know. I’ll put a party together.

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3 Responses to “Rally to support local farms, produce”

  1. Bob Chalfant Says:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    So what is Carl’s e-mail addy at Blue Pike Farms. I’ve been getting his e-mails about the chickens and bees forwarded from a friend, but with no traceable Blue Pike addy.

  2. George Nemeth Says:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    The one i got came from blue.pike.farm at gmail.com

  3. Ed Morrison Says:
    December 7th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    This strategy is catching on: From Farm-to-Fork in North Carolina: http://hex.io/2n1