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THE LEXINGTON COMMUNITY COMMONS PROPOSAL
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In the spring of 2011 I was trying to get JOHN's support to establish an organic community garden. A few weeks before, I presented a 15 min. PowerPoint Presentation to the city council called the LEXINGTON COMMUNITY COMMONS PROPOSAL. The Proposal was shut down for the most part, but as for the community garden aspect of the proposal, I felt there was some hope. So I called JOHN one day to ask him about it. He said, "why don't you ride your bike over here and I'll take you to a location I have in mind." So I did and he took me out to a spot of land sandwiched between the City Sewage Lagoon, the City Dump, and MONSANTO. When we got out of his truck I said, "JOHN, I don't think people are going to be interested in gardening right next to the Sewage Lagoon. Couldn't we set up a garden a little further away from all of this, like in the City Circle Park or something." He said, "NO! This is my offer; take it or leave it." I said, "JOHN, I am trying to establish an organic garden here, MONSANTO is right there. There will be pesticide over-spray all over my crops, which will defeat the purpose of trying to establish an ORGANIC garden." He turned and pointed at the seemingly endless expanse of GMO agriculture over his shoulder and said... "THIS IS THE WAY WE HAVE BEEN DOING AGRICULTURE FOR THE PAST 100 YEARS! If you think you can do better, go ahead and be my guest! If you want your organic garden here is my final offer. You are not to create any raised beds. You must make the plots 15 feet by 15 feet and 15 feet apart, so I can get a mower through here. You will not establish any water collection systems. If you want water, bring out a 5 gallon bucket and dip it out of the Sewage Lagoon." I looked at him with disgust and he looked at me and said... "What? It's natural." After those comments all hope was lost.
LEXINGTON COMMUNITY COMMONS PROPOSAL
- http://kaseywells.weebly.com/slideshow.html
Post Script: JOHN is also a sales representative for GOWAN Chemical Company. He makes a good portion of his living by killing living things, through the sale of herbicide, pesticide, fungicide and so on... so, in order for him to sleep well at night he must regard organic gardening as an absurdity.
LEXINGTON COMMUNITY COMMONS PROPOSAL
- http://kaseywells.weebly.com/slideshow.html
Post Script: JOHN is also a sales representative for GOWAN Chemical Company. He makes a good portion of his living by killing living things, through the sale of herbicide, pesticide, fungicide and so on... so, in order for him to sleep well at night he must regard organic gardening as an absurdity.