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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Organic Farmers in Oregon Need Your Help | An Organic Farm Under Threat! Keep Azure Farm Organic. | Can USDA Organic certification trump a county's noxious weed control code?
  • Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 13:53:34 -0400

the many headed hydra of creeping local government regulations, evolving
and adapting - this incident is beyond belief

Organic Farmers in Oregon Need Your Help
*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.*

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.

--
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared









--
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared



  • [permaculture] Organic Farmers in Oregon Need Your Help | An Organic Farm Under Threat! Keep Azure Farm Organic. | Can USDA Organic certification trump a county's noxious weed control code?, Lawrence London, 05/15/2017

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