Ramblings of a frustrated woman

[bambi]

Thank you

 

[Mini Horses]

Here in my area of VA we do need a business license in some instances. Mostly a reasonable annual flat fee ($25-75) for sales up to "XX", then a % for sales over that. Amounts of some farm product can be sold from the farm with no license (cottage laws, right to farm, etc). But there are specific guidelines as to what, where, how, and all that goes with it -- produce, flowers, eggs, some baked goods, some canned goods, some meats...NO raw milk but, herd shares are legal.

In general, fairly decent situation for most things. Most of our small towns support/sponser regularly scheduled markets. Many even have a nice location for these with covered areas. Our State Ag dept actually RUNS a weekly auction for selling veggies from an excess basket of tomatoes from a resident to a truckload of melons from a commercial farmer. It's fun!! Not to mention that it's only 12 miles from me -- being a real incentive to go buy.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

The sole reason my state issues nursery permits is to track and avoid the spread of several insects and diseases . Otherwise they don't care.

IMO, that argument is totally bogus. If it is legal to buy seeds of any particular plant, grow the plants from that purchased seed, or cultivate a particular plant in a certain state, then the government has no business dipping their fingers into the wallets of the individual who chooses to grow and sell such plants within the state borders.

They've kept chronic wasting disease in deer and emerald ash borers out of my state when they have issues in neighboring states so I'm ok with that I guess?

Don't think for a minute that the EAB or CWD are respectors of state lines. These pests will march forward whether fees are levied or not. Granted, some human activity does result in spread of disease or pests. But IMO it's naive to think that once a pest has entered a continent that we can regulate and legislate to prevent it's spread. We may slow the progress. But if the pest can survive in a given climate, it will do so.

Hi, have been lurking for a long while now and only posting once in a while, just wanting to let posters to know I find this conversation very intriguing. I have wonder about this on many occasions, so I don't know the answer but the example I can come up with is Boa Constrictors that are destroying the native wildlife in Florida, bees that are killing the native bees and so forth, but then again I think of the dreaded thistle and yet I see all the wonderful butterfly's an insects that depend on them now. Just my 2 cents which really doesn't help, but there it is

Hi Bambi.

 

[NH Homesteader]

We are in the gypsy moth quarantine area so they regulate exports to areas that are not. They are trying to keep emerald ash borer from spreading. And I would consider it poor practice of fish and game to not at least attempt to keep our deer population from wasting away. I don't expect the deer to stop at the state line but if they can keep more CWD from coming in, I'm happy. It barely costs a thing for any of these regulations and inspections in my state and I don't consider either the fish and game department or myself to be naive.

 

[KeeperAtTheHomestead]

But IMO it's naive to think that once a pest has entered a continent that we can regulate and legislate to prevent it's spread. We may slow the progress. But if the pest can survive in a given climate, it will do so.

Exactly! The answer is never to give more power to the government. That has never in the history of history solved anything.


Hi Bambi!!