[Vision2020] Growing Food Locally Was:Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work

[Donovan Arnold]

Garrett,

You are right, it is great to have someone else cook for a change. :) And I do agree there are some excellent places to eat in Moscow.

I do disagree that shipping each item in one at a time by special order is the way the go because it is more expensive and requires more resources. I would imagine that if you had to pay to ship every item for your garden you could not make your farm work. Same is true for other items for people and businesses. 

I agree, Moscow should not be overrun with strip malls. However, I believe the free market should be allowed to run. Moscow does not have the ability to stop Hawkins from being built. It does not have the ability to keep it from taking water from the aquifer. It can work with them though to control how much water, and try to get them to hire people in Moscow, and help local businesses. 

Best Regards,

Donovan

--- On Fri, 3/13/09, Garrett Clevenger <garrettmc at verizon.net> wrote:
From: Garrett Clevenger <garrettmc at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Growing Food Locally Was:Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work
To: vision2020 at moscow.com, donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 11:37 AM

Dononvan writes:

"Once someone can give me seeds to grow my own Double Quarter Pounder
w/xtra cheese and a chocolate milkshake, I will be growing my own food."


I still don't grow all the food we eat. That would be great, but is highly
unlikely. We don't eat out much, but it's nice to get a meal someone
else makes, and not much beats a chocolate milkshake. 

I'm glad Moscow has places to find those things, even candy. Moscow does
have a candy factory (Cowgirl Chocolates) but obviously we require shipping of
gummy bears and the like.

I'm not advocating ceasing shipping of commodities to Moscow, merely that
what we can produce here, support. In the long run, it is more sustainable and
getting closer to living within our means.

But it doesn't mean Hawkins is going to be providing a whole lot more
variety. Afterall, stores here can order you things you're wanting if they
don't already have it. And with the internet the sky's the limit. Since
you are supposed to pay the sales tax to Idaho on even out-of-state internet
orders, at least that sales tax revenue stays here (if people are honest about
reporting it, that is...)

gclev

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