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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Organic Farmers in Oregon Need Your Help - Cornucopia Institute
  • Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:59:21 -0400

Organic Farmers in Oregon Need Your Help - Cornucopia Institute
https://www.cornucopia.org/2017/05/organic-farmers-oregon-need-help/

Organic Farmers in Oregon Need Your Help May 12th, 2017

*Cornucopia’s Take:* Many people have called and emailed to alert us to
this threat to Azure Farm in Oregon. The details, as explained in the
video, seem quite concerning. You can take action with the ideas suggested
at the end of the video.
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*An Organic Farm Under Threat!*
* Keep Azure Farm Organic
<https://hl.azurestandard.com/healthy-living/info/azure-farm-moro/?utm_source=Azure%20Standard&utm_campaign=75a4f75bba-AZUREFARM&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_acd12c4f7f-75a4f75bba-95979417&goal=0_acd12c4f7f-75a4f75bba-95979417>.*
*Stop local county authorities from spraying this certified organic farm
with Roundup and other toxic herbicides.*

*Take action: Email <lhernandez@co.sherman.or.us> Sherman County
Court before May 17!*

Azure Farms is a working, certified organic farm located in Moro, central
Oregon, in Sherman County. It has been certified organic for about 18
years. The farm produces almost all the organic wheat, field peas, barley,
Einkorn, and beef for Azure Standard.

Sherman County is changing the interpretation of its statutory code from
controlling noxious weeds to eradicating noxious weeds. These weeds include
Morning Glory, Canada Thistle, and Whitetop, all of which have been on the
farm for many years, but that only toxic chemicals will eradicate.

Organic farming methods – at least as far as we know today – can only
control noxious weeds—it is very difficult to eradicate them.

*What’s Happening?*

Sherman County may be issuing a Court Order on May 22, 2017 to quarantine
Azure Farms and possibly to spray the whole farm with poisonous herbicides,
contaminating them with Milestone, Escort and Roundup herbicides.

This will destroy all the efforts Azure Farms has made for years to produce
the very cleanest and healthiest food humanly possible. About 2,000 organic
acres would be impacted; that is about 1.5 times the size of the city
center of Philadelphia that is about to be prayed with noxious, toxic,
polluting herbicides.

The county would then put a lien on the farm to pay for the expense of the
labor and chemicals used.

*Take Action Now*

Contact Sherman County Court before May 17 when the next court discussion
will be held.

*Contact info:*

1. Via email at lhernandez@co.sherman.or.us or
2. Call Lauren at 541-565-3416.

Show Sherman County that people care about their food NOT containing toxic
chemicals.
Overwhelm the Sherman County representatives with your voices!



  • [permaculture] Organic Farmers in Oregon Need Your Help - Cornucopia Institute, Lawrence London, 05/15/2017

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