Loading ...Turns Out The Government Isn’t Just After Raw Milk. Farmer Says Oregon Is “Going After Small Farmers Selling Food To Their Neighbors”
Women operating farm for 7 years gets notice she can no longer operate without a water right: “Permitting processes to use your own well water”
Oregon also sending out cease & desist orders on watering your own gardens “Gardeners with a half acre of land are now receiving cease and desist orders saying you can’t water your gardens” (without a water right)
Turns Out The Government Isn’t Just After Raw Milk. Farmer Says Oregon Is “Going After Small Farmers Selling Food To Their Neighbors”
Women operating farm for 7 years gets notice she can no longer operate without a water right: “Permitting processes to use your own well water”
Oregon also sending out cease & desist orders on watering your own gardens “Gardeners with a half acre of land are now receiving cease and desist orders saying you can’t water your gardens” (without a water right)
“In the state of Oregon, if you are using water, even groundwater, the only water that you can legally harvest and use without a permit is actually rainwater.
— Even if you have a private well on your property, that belongs to the people of Oregon, not you. So, um, what they’ve said is basically if you’re using it for commercial purposes, you have to have a permit.
“So under this this rule, there’s an exemption for commercial and industrial use for up to 5,000 gallons per day. Okay. So these gardeners with a half acre of land are probably using a 1000 gallons of water a day, not even a 1000 gallons of water a day. You would think that they’re saying you’re a commercial business because if you are growing food for yourself, they still allow you to utilize, you know water from your well to grow a half acre garden up to a half acre garden.
There’s a limit on that, but this is a the story I read was about a a half acre market garden where the lady has been growing food and selling it to neighbors. It’s been her primary income source, and, um, they shut her down.
Christina Del Campo has just over a half acre. She grows blueberries, local vegetables, things like that. Her farm is called Oak Song Farm near Eugene.
She’s operated there for 7 years, and she recently received a letter from the regional office of the Oregon water resources department. It was a notification that the farm couldn’t irrigate its commercial crops without a water right.“
I can’t transcribe it all due to X’s text limits but this is a crazy listen
From Oregon Government website:
Groundwater uses exempt from needing a water right include:
• Stock watering
• Lawn or noncommercial garden watering of not more than one-half acre in area
• Single or group domestic purposes not exceeding 15,000 gallons per day
• Single industrial or commercial purposes not exceeding 5,000 gallons per day
• Down-hole heat exchange uses
• Watering school grounds that are ten acres or less and located within a critical groundwater area
• Emergency firefighting
IIRC, this is the same state that made collecting rainwater also illegal.
Ie, it isn’t yours to collect.
WHEN do people get angry…. I mean… isnt it uo to us????
At some point people have to start saying (and doing) fuck the Oregon government, and fuck anyone who tries to enforce this shit. Armed and dangerous. Shoot on sight.