View Single Post
  #6 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Jeßus[_55_] Jeßus[_55_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,424
Default "An Unruly Proliferation Of Fresh Produce"

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 17:24:49 -0400, songbird >
wrote:

wrote:
>>
>> http://www.advicegoddess.com/archive....html#comments
>>
>> From Kerry McDonald:
>>
>> ...It's the current predicament facing the Little Ones Learning Center in Forest Park, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta. In an area where access to fresh fruits and vegetables can be limited, this preschool has stepped up to prioritize growing and selling fresh produce from its school gardens. According to recent reporting in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Little Ones has often sold its produce with generous discounts to local food stamp recipients and other neighbors and has been acknowledged as a leader in the farm-to-school healthy food movement.
>>
>> That is, until the city shut down the bi-monthly farm stand program last month for zoning violations.
>>
>> Despite protests from community members, city officials are holding firm to their stance that allowing one farm stand could lead to an unruly proliferation of fresh produce.
>>
>> "Anywhere you live, you've got to have rules and regulations," Forest Park City Manager Angela Redding said. "Otherwise, you would just have whatever," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported...

>
> just give it all away. that is what we do with most of it
>that we grow here and that saves a lot of non-sense.


They'd have a problem with that as well. You can count on it.