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No because being forced to grow food

Oh how terrible. Someone might think you are one of the poors! A peasant even!

I’ve never tried this but how about one of those small DIY greenhouses?

It's super easy to build a greenhouse for very little money. My greenhouse, used commercially, is an old Costco "barn" someone was throwing out. I spent $125 on good quality greenhouse plastic and another $100 or so for automatic vent openers and then reinforced it all with scrap wood. Another small farm down the road built one mostly out of old windows they got from a neighbor who was replacing theirs.

You can also just make a smaller cold frame with an old window and/or plastic. It's also really helpful to have frost "blankets", either as old used blankets/comforters or row covers like Remay or Agribon. I use Agribon 50 which gets you about 8F of protection. Not very environmentally friendly though!

I think everyone is misunderstanding what you are saying. Maybe I am too.

I believe you want to know what your tax dollars are being spent on? Like how much to make bombs vs space probes vs education?

If so, interesting idea. But you probably don't want to know.

The word "theoretically" is doing a LOT of work here.

WTF. I thought y'all were smarter than that.

Dammit.

WE want the excuse, NATO wants the excuse

Are you ready to enlist?

Well "that'll fix the economy"

But no land

Hate to break it to you but most of our ancestors were farm owners or farmhands.

"modern farmers especially those fucking profligates in the central valley are dumb as shit and ignorant as all hell."

Why do you have such hate for farmers? Is it that you don't like food? You feel you have a better way of eating?

But we’re not really talking about hobby farms.

You are misinformed and I strongly suspect do not know the technical definition of "hobby farm" but are using that as a term of derision to dismiss small farms so you can maintain your fictional notion that farmers are bad people. Have you thought much about where that prejudice comes from?

The vast majority of farms in California are under 300 acres. In the US 89% of all farms are classified as "small family farms" by the USDA, meaning they have less than $350k of gross income (GFCI, technically). Now you'll see terms like "production value" mixed in with such reporting. Know that there's an inherent problem with that - it's geared only toward commodities, not speciality crops and particularly not those sold retail. That's an important distinction.

Further, there has been a wave of new organic and sustainable farms popping up in California over the last 10-15 years. Do you think Trump supporters are starting small-scale organic/agroecological/regenerative farms?

I am by no means saying that large-scale industrial farms aren't dominated by right-leaning people. But to generalize and outright dismiss farmers as a whole displays not only ignorance but prejudice that, critically, is tremendously damaging to small-scale organic/agroecological/regenerative farms as a whole.

You can't lay that on Smith. He accomplished a lot. But, no surprise, a Trump judge derailed it.

He can't himself since it's spelled out in the constitution in the 22nd amendment.

So tl;dr it would need 3/4 of the states to repeal that. More detail than that, but that's what it boils down to.

You should know this:

https://www.thetaskforce.org/chick-fil-a-and-lgbtq-discrimination/ https://www.advocate.com/news/chick-fil-a-lgbtq-record

It seems likely to me.

Why? How many have you personally met and had a conversation with? Are you aware that there are thousands of small organic farms in CA that are run by smart, dedicated and progressive people?

Of course. And there are many. But there are also many farmers in California - I am one - who would never in a million years vote for Trump or anyone like him.

All what, 2?

Do you like to eat?

Woah there. That's a pretty damned broad brush you are painting with. In fact it's a pretty damned ignorant comment.

Do you think EVERY farmer in California is a Republican and/or Trump supporter?

Edit: Before you down vote (but of course feel free), kindly consider this: 89% of all farms in the US are small-scale family farms with less than $350k revenue (note that profit margins in farming hover around 10%). A growing number of new farms are organic/sustainable/agroecological. These are not Trump-supporting people, ffs. Please ask yourself what purpose it serves you to over-generalize and angrily shake your fist at ALL farmers as if somehow all farmers are conservative. All you are doing is furthering the industrial food systems narrative of farmer=bad. Think about it.

Is it really news to you that Chick Fil-A is as rabidly anti-LGBTQ as Hobby Lobby?

Why do you need a constant supply of fresh, in-season fruit and "vegatables?