Growing produce and raising animals in the city is a basic foundation for healthy living in a community the city council decided last Thrusday, January 31, does less good for the community kept in pockets on public land and market property. Regular growing, raising, and sales are now permitted on more open spaces in communities, including both private properties and public walkways.
Bees are not just bugs that fly past on occasion. A six foot high barrier that surrounds each one of three or more hives for honey bees, close to homes and the public walkways, stands high enough to keep the bees minding their own business.
Making honey in the community is work that not only keeps a resident busy with the bees, and active, it gives locals a nearby place to find the healthy sweetener. The county's Healthy Works program funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act now makes healthy living depend less on the Health and Human Services Agency and more on locals' decisions to convert urban land into a an agricultural enterprise on the side of city life. Last year's 50,000 grant made this year's new start on urban agriculture possible.
Farmers will have to pass up fewer opportunities to sell in the city. Even fresh produce sales one day a week on a private lot the owner agrees is a good place for a do-it-yourself farmers market can stop poverty from keeping healthy food choices out of the community. Daily markets might make the healthy living plan a lasting success.
Four acres or less is enough for a farmer to have in hand on a retail farm to produce fresh vegetables and fruits for their neighbors, and sell on the lot, but not so much that open spaces for recreation and parks will become a lost hope because the commercial activity took over.
Using the home land under a locals feet for growing produce can be a a use of dirt in the outdoors that can last in the communty on the same property the owner raises up to five chickens. And agricultural practice that can become common, just as long as there are no roosters, as the code makes a rule, to call out the morning time through the block of houses.
A local basket of goods looks better with the local egg colors.
Raking in business profits inside a community is not the main grounds the councilmembers stood on to approve the changes to the local municipal code and the city's general plan. Community locals can join in making the local basket the best collection of goods locals can pay for or take an opportunity to stop in on their way home and buy something healthy to eat.
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This article is a telling commentary for Post Edition, an every other Wednesday collection of pure citizen voice. The other Wednesdays are days for developing news, called Open Commitments.
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