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Posted: 4/25/2024 11:51:00 AM EDT
Yup, as part of affordable housing initiatives. In order to get the AH stipend you MUST join and participate in the farming community. This supposedly is going to cure "food deserts".
How much land this requires per family, (has to be within the city limits) where they are going to get the experience/equipment/supplies or what happens when you DON'T farm the land is not mentioned. Speculation is Austin is going to drop around 100 million to get this up and running. No word on continuing costs. Agrihood. |
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Excellent! I look forward to seeing the bountiful harvests of Glorious Worker's Food Collective #1.
I assume they're setting up a series of 5-year plans, and will invade Caldwell County by parachute if there's several bad harvests in a row. |
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Quoted: So more of this? https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.f7b47a4a7ffef0fde5b03a1ccd895cc4?rik=lOvG38K0Rz%2bRyg&riu=http%3a%2f%2ffiles.abovetopsecret.com%2ffiles%2fimg%2fzt5ee2bc44.jpg&ehk=e11YZYLQcdt8eLGv62TXYwl45xftl292tUt7uHX9jlU%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&sres=1&sresct=1 They should be required to subsist entirely off their agricultural efforts. View Quote Needs more commissars with small caliber handguns to really get the full Soviet collectivist experience. |
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Quoted: Ssssooooooo......... Weed farms by the airport? View Quote That was my first thought, but this is going to be in far northeast Austin, up against Plfugerville. There is already a "concept" farm, it gives homeless a tiny home and a garden plot big enough to grow a few tomatoes. I want to know who is going to handle livestock. |
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Quoted: Needs more commissars with small caliber handguns to really get the full Soviet collectivist experience. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: So more of this? https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.f7b47a4a7ffef0fde5b03a1ccd895cc4?rik=lOvG38K0Rz%2bRyg&riu=http%3a%2f%2ffiles.abovetopsecret.com%2ffiles%2fimg%2fzt5ee2bc44.jpg&ehk=e11YZYLQcdt8eLGv62TXYwl45xftl292tUt7uHX9jlU%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&sres=1&sresct=1 They should be required to subsist entirely off their agricultural efforts. Needs more commissars with small caliber handguns to really get the full Soviet collectivist experience. And completely unobtainable production goals with...penalties for missing them. |
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They're going to kill all the sparrows next, right? I think that's how this playbook works.
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Quoted: That was my first thought, but this is going to be in far northeast Austin, up against Plfugerville. There is already a "concept" farm, it gives homeless a tiny home and a garden plot big enough to grow a few tomatoes. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Ssssooooooo......... Weed farms by the airport? That was my first thought, but this is going to be in far northeast Austin, up against Plfugerville. There is already a "concept" farm, it gives homeless a tiny home and a garden plot big enough to grow a few tomatoes. Only thing they gonna plant is empty booze bottles |
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so who will they invade to steal the fruits of their labor when theirs is kaput?
Biden will give them the fruits of another's labor Commies looking out for each other...fleece their neighbor's plus 10% for the big guy. |
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Locals will go there to poop, fertilizing the soil & saving water & streams. The soy they grow will be rich in estrogen.
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So they're going to subsidize living expenses for blacks, in exchange for making them work the land? Are they going to enforce it with whips too?
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Quoted: So more of this? https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.f7b47a4a7ffef0fde5b03a1ccd895cc4?rik=lOvG38K0Rz%2bRyg&riu=http%3a%2f%2ffiles.abovetopsecret.com%2ffiles%2fimg%2fzt5ee2bc44.jpg&ehk=e11YZYLQcdt8eLGv62TXYwl45xftl292tUt7uHX9jlU%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&sres=1&sresct=1 They should be required to subsist entirely off their agricultural efforts. View Quote Yes, fertilized with human waste. |
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I came here expecting photos similar to the gardens at the CHAZ/CHOP during the summer of love ??
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A shit-stirrer could start a campaign that they only plant veggies which match the colors on the Palestinian flag
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As someone who plants with a push seeder from South Korea, there isn’t a way in hell they’re going to make immigrants and black folks work the government plantation.
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Slavery on the Welfare Plantation, it's the Democrat way. That's what the Democrat's Great Society was all about, minus the silly garden thing.
People of Color will populate the Welfare Plantation and will be bussed into Austin to riot on command. They will obey their Democrat masters because the pimp hand has no mercy. |
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Quoted: So more of this? https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.f7b47a4a7ffef0fde5b03a1ccd895cc4?rik=lOvG38K0Rz%2bRyg&riu=http%3a%2f%2ffiles.abovetopsecret.com%2ffiles%2fimg%2fzt5ee2bc44.jpg&ehk=e11YZYLQcdt8eLGv62TXYwl45xftl292tUt7uHX9jlU%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&sres=1&sresct=1 They should be required to subsist entirely off their agricultural efforts. View Quote Pretty much. The equivalent of equal pay for everyone. No one gets anything. |
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Quoted: Pretty much. The equivalent of equal pay for everyone. No one gets anything. View Quote I've always said I would love for these hard-core lefties to actually have to live under the systems they advocate. Every commie thinks that comes the revolution, they'll become a state-funded poet or a professor of equality studies. None of them think they're going to spend the rest of their days toiling away in the Glorious People's Coal Mine #17 and eating half-rotten potatoes for dinner. |
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Playing around with the numbers here, if you figure you need an acre to feed a family for a year, that's going to require a hell of a lot of VERY expensive real estate inside the city limits. Hundreds of acres when you take into account crop rotations. (not considering livestock, I can just see what a disaster say, a dairy operation would be)
A look at Zillow shows a regular house lot in the area is 140K. Now, I don't think they are going to find that big a property unless they go the Eminent Domain route and steal it. |
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Quoted: Playing around with the numbers here, if you figure you need an acre to feed a family for a year, that's going to require a hell of a lot of VERY expensive real estate inside the city limits. Hundreds of acres when you take into account crop rotations. (not considering livestock, I can just see what a disaster say, a dairy operation would be) A look at Zillow shows a regular house lot in the area is 140K. Now, I don't think they are going to find that big a property unless they go the Eminent Domain route and steal it. View Quote You realistically need about four to five very efficiently planned acres to feed a whole family for a year, at minimum. And that’s assuming they know anything about farming and livestock. |
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I for one think that this is a fantastic idea.
It is like on the job training for America's next generation of strawberry pickers. |
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Quoted: You realistically need about four to five very efficiently planned acres to feed a whole family for a year, at minimum. And that’s assuming they know anything about farming and livestock. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Playing around with the numbers here, if you figure you need an acre to feed a family for a year, that's going to require a hell of a lot of VERY expensive real estate inside the city limits. Hundreds of acres when you take into account crop rotations. (not considering livestock, I can just see what a disaster say, a dairy operation would be) A look at Zillow shows a regular house lot in the area is 140K. Now, I don't think they are going to find that big a property unless they go the Eminent Domain route and steal it. You realistically need about four to five very efficiently planned acres to feed a whole family for a year, at minimum. And that’s assuming they know anything about farming and livestock. I'd always heard the rule of thumb was 1-1.5 acres per adult, but I imagine that includes a shitload of variables concerning crop rotation, loss of some of the crop to weather, insects, and animals, etc. |
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My local city council is literally having city staff attend a 'poor school' to help them understand what it's like to be 'economically disadvantaged'.
Can't make this shit up. |
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Quoted: I'd always heard the rule of thumb was 1-1.5 acres per adult, but I imagine that includes a shitload of variables concerning crop rotation, loss of some of the crop to weather, insects, and animals, etc. View Quote Just so much stuff you can't make without dairy products, and tough to run even a goat or two on an acre. But if you can subsist on mostly chicken, eggs, and veggies, you can make a hella lot of food down in Texas on even half an acre, the growing season is just sooo long, I used to start planting the cold-tolerant stuff in the last week of January. And in November I was still harvesting tomatoes right up until the first freeze. |
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Um, earning your keep isnt slavery.
It's a good concept but will never work for most of the people its aimed at. |
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