She could have said that — but she didn’t actually do so!
(@riverstreet was paraphrasing Dickens.)
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Seems like I can recall a time when these same people were complaining about a black man trying to rule by “executive fiat”
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I like the nice touch of waiving it if the state’s unemployment is 10% or higher - so reasonable. Because if there are no jobs for a 59 year old woman where she is, she can simply pick up and move to the other end of the state or to the big city and find a job easy peasy. Everyone loves hiring old women, look at all the stock photos of the workplace, chock-full of…oh, I see. Well, she can move to the big city and find a minimum wage job and live there right? San Francisco? Chicago? NYC? Single father of 2? Get some re-training you lazybones - something easy to grasp like coding.
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what did you sell?
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I was a very small farmer, selling lots of vegetables with a big concentration of flower bouquets and handmade pine needle baskets. Loved doing it, but it was a lot of work and if there’s one thing I got sick of it was weeding. I was organic and used hand tools no sprays, etc.
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Beat me to it. Well played
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I trust that in this cold Advent season they are softening the blow with vouchers for nice, clean coal.
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Farming and gardening is hard work. And those pine needle baskets… I raise a black wing and salute you.
I love gardens, both public and private, but hate the dirty, damp, smelly part of weeding and then hauling the weeds away. My front ‘yard’ is given over to native plants and grasses. The neighbors think it’s just overrun with blackberries and weeds, but I say "eco-scape!’
Nobody buys it.
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Dear Poor, Ignorant Red State Trumpettes:
Say goodbye your free RCs and Moonpies.
Merry Christmas!
Love, the whole Toadglans Team
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I actually don’t mind weeding on a small scale but in the NW if I pulled a weed once, I pulled it 10 times. I’m big on native plants and in my new home I’m trying to get rid of a bunch of invasive plants, some are actually trees and putting in natives. I’m not the tidy 1" high grass type.
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Right, the program is intended as much to help farmers as feed poor people, especially their kids.
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It doesn’t matter how much it costs the nation; what matters is how much pain and misery it inflicts on poor people, especially non-white ones.
The cruelty is the point.
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What, you didn’t cover everything in poly sheeting?
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Indeed it is. It’s the foundation of modern “conservatism”: “Morality for thee, but not for me.”
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Pathways only, not beds.
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Yeah, I used to provide tech assistance on an organic research farm. They didn’t use it much themselves, but the miles of poly plastic sheeting used for weed control is one of the dirty little secrets of organic farming.
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Yep, I’ve seen it on some farms but to me it looked like a pain in the butt to use between getting the drip in and maybe supports for row cover over that, just to complicated for my tastes. And, I didn’t like the fact of food being rooted under black plastic, so I weeded.
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There are way cheaper and easier not to mention less toxic alternatives to plastic: thick hay mulch, carpet strips, raised beds.
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I’m with you. This place didn’t use much plastic, heavy mulching and intensive plantings worked pretty well, but it’s northern NM, not the PNW.
They grew seed trials, over 1000 varieties every year. Really interesting, gorgeous farm, and we got to eat most of it!
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I’ve done some work on another farm this summer and they use raised beds like I did and heavily mulch with hay. The weeds are relentless, especially if you live in an area with rain. This farm is in the East and the weeds were much worse than mine in the West, but then their growing area is 3 times bigger and much harder to keep up with.
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