Louisville, KY: Get your healthy refugee-grown veggies….
Posted by Ann Corcoran on July 15, 2012
….after all, you, the taxpayers of America paid $65,000 to grow them! And, you can use food stamps to buy them too! Sounds like a perfect model for Obama’s redistribution of wealth doesn’t it! Your money grows the vegetables and your money buys them. Michelle Obama says, …”it’s a model for the world.” But, but , but , what happens when you run out of other peoples’ money?
Here is the story from Catholic Charities of Louisville’s website:
Please purchase your produce from our clients! You get a chemical-free product that is harvested hours before sale, maximizing the nutritional content for you and your family. Also, please forward this information to your networks so we can all support refugee growers. We take Debit Cards and EBT (Food Stamps) at all of our Farmers Markets!!
Here is the federal grant program that funds this competition for American Mom & Pop growers and small farmers. Check it out, you will see Louisville at the top of the list (wonder how much of this money Catholic Charities gets to keep for itself?) Is your city there too?
3 Responses to “Louisville, KY: Get your healthy refugee-grown veggies….”
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dymphnagates said
but…but..isn’t that what govt is for? To drive individuals out of the market? The new regulations in Faquier County for family farms are daunting…and passed without much notice by local residents
Ralph Parker said
What is wrong with this? There are farmers markets in all cities and there is both government and private money used for this. The program gives the refugees added income which they desperately need as it does for local farmers. In Atlanta, we have the Global Growers Network in coordination with Refugee Family Services and we have markets set up by volunteers at CDC and Emory as well as basket weaving and sewing projects. Even if there is government funding, don’t these programs benefit all
acorcoran said
We will have to agree to disagree…this is not the role of government. And, you can’t tell me that refugee gardens (with thousands of dollars of taxpayer subsidies) won’t have an impact on a grower who is trying to raise his produce without government support. And, how are the refugees doing? I’ve heard in some places its the American volunteers who are keeping the gardens weeded and watered.