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Tickets available for the 2nd Annual Tricycle Gardens Harvest Dinner
09/07/2010 7:27 PM by John M
The 2nd Annual Tricycle Gardens Harvest Dinner will be October 2, 2010, at the Robinson Theater. They’ll be roasting a hog on-site, will have restaurants cooking, too, like last year, wine, beer, a signature Tricycle Gardens cocktail, silent auction and bluegrass from Scattered, Smothered and Covered.
The BIG NEWS is our upcoming 2nd Annual Harvest Dinner, and tickets are going FAST. Please buy your tickets soon, as we are already half way sold! Acacia, Rowland Fine Dining, Millies, Cafe Rustica, Bev Eggleston & EcoFriendly Foods, Sette, Ellwood Thompson’s, The Alamo, Belmont Butchery & MORE! Good food, good music, good people! We hope you can join us. Tickets are $50, or to sponsor a table for $1000, call Will Snyder at 804-222-3646.
Undoubtly the best meal of the year -mouth watering food, good Richmond folk, and a great cause feeding future generations!
have you read Senate Bill 510. S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower
It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes. S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.
#2 “only we can live without money.”
Maybe YOU can, but I cannot. You must not have a mortgage to pay, nor any other needs, and perhaps you exist off of farming and grow everything you need, including cotton and wool for your clothes as well as ingredients for all food and spirits or beer or wine.
You must not have a car, because without money you don’t have car payments, insurance, or money for gas – or even money to take a bus (and without money, the bus system would not be working anyway as they would not have money for gas).
And you do not expect police or fire protection, as without money they couldn’t work, either. What I do not understand is how, with all the self-sustaining farming you are doing, you have time to read and supposedly understand entire congressional bills.
Having said all that, please explain how this bill affects a community garden!
We could live and live better without Monsanto and other such companies taking control of our seed and food supply…I recommend seeing Food Inc http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/