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  • From: "Stephanie Nosacek" <breezynosacek AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] RE: [Market Farming] Intro from new member (Stephanie Nosacek)
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:02:01 -0500

Guy Clark,

I'm in Kenbridge VA and it isn't just the neighbor it's the county, but she has pull, her husband used to be the sheriff before he died last year. I wouldn't be listed as a farm, but as a greenhouse/nursery operation according to them. Although I managed to get farm tags for my truck. They have some weird goings on around here. According to some of the friendlier old timers, if you rock the boat, you can figure on getting tickets, fines, flat tires, knocked out turn signals, fire inspector problems and the list goes on and on.

They told me I could build the greenhouse with no problems. But, I can't sell out of it. I'm not allowed to have any delivery trucks for shipping plants in and out, no wholesale customers, no appointment only customers and no yard sales to sell plants and/or produce. Can't put a roadside stand up either.

They want to keep things at a standstill here I think. They are so resistant to change it isn't even funny. They would rather complain about how the state took their railroad and promised them a highway spur and decided later to move it to a nearby town. That happened over 20 yrs ago and they still blame that for all of their ills, LOL!

I tried to get a farmers market started here and everybody said yes, that's a great idea. The city said they wouldn't apply for the grants unless they had enough interested (committed) vendors. So, I sent around a petition and sign up sheet at several stores. I had five commitments to sell out of thirty signatures for support. Of those five, only three had to do with agriculture and one said he wanted to sell meat and there isn't a legal processing plant in the whole southside of Virginia.

I'm having to go outside of my county to sell, BUT if I can add on a few more acres here behind me I can get around their stipulations. I have an access road that runs beside my property to the fellow behind. He leases this property to hunters and they are in and out all of the time.

We live in a curve, and we have county sanitation trucks running through here daily because we are close to the dump. All I need is to be able to get the land behind us and then I can widen the access road, put in some decent parking and away we go!

The fellow that owns it offered to sell us some of the property. We will have our house paid off in a little over a year and then we can get some more land. I'm hoping to add at least five acres and I wouldn't mind ten.

Stephanie Nosacek

Zone 7

Kenbridge, VA

Message: 10
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:56:48 -0600
From: Guy Clark
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Intro from new member
To: Market Farming
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Steph-
Where are you living now?
I am going to guess that your neighbor is actually wrong regarding the
special entrance. Most states have laws that exempt farmers from many,
non-health, local and county laws and regulations. I would suggest
googling to find your state statutes and then search them for key words
like "farmers" and see what you find.
Guy Clark
Zone 5b-7
Columbia, MO



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