Leave My Food Alone

This has just come to our attention:

www.leavemyfoodalone.org is a petition designed to stop HR 875. In its current form, the bill could prevent small local organic farms and community gardeners from growing and selling you nutritious, truly fresh, organic produce. It would crush our small local food producers by imposing heavy government regulation that only large corporations could adhere to and make a farmers market almost impossible. It's sort of like NAIS, but for farmers & gardeners.

Please take a moment to read and sign the petition!

Meeting Saturday March 14th

Healthy Harvest will meet this Saturday March 14th at 10 AM at the Bird House in Leakey. Agenda items will include planning for the April Seminar and the Local Food Festival. We will also discuss plant and seed exchange ideas for the group, and the status of the Farmers Market and Community Garden ideas. The tour tentatively scheduled for this meeting has been postponed. See you Saturday!

Votes are in for Interests Poll

Twenty-seven Healthy Harvesters voted on their interests in the group. Here are the results:

(92%) A local farmers market
(66%) Healthy cooking
(62%) Saving and sharing seeds
(55%) How to improve my soil
(55%) How to grow my own food
(51%) Eating organic food
(51%) How to preserve food
(48%)100 mile diet resources
(44%) Making new friends
(40%) Sharing my knowledge
(29%) A community garden
(22%) The politics of food
(18%) Growing food to sell