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The USDA is asking people to register their local community gardens so they can be designated a ‘People’s Garden’. Reasons included in the registration are benefiting the community, collaborating with neighbors, incorporating sustainable practices, and educating the public.

One of the requirements for being recognized as a “People’s Garden” is:

Incorporate sustainable practices such as rain barrels or micro-irrigation, composting, cover crops, pest management, bat houses or insect hotels, and/or native plants.

Links to the survey and the registration form are available below.

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/95a2e9a5160f46db97396f2e66e49097

https://www.usda.gov/peoples-garden/registration-form

In a related matter, in 2015 The James Madison Institute posted a case study regarding how the EPA (an agency separate from the USDA), used legislation that provided them with jurisdiction over “Navigable Waterways”, in a way that was so vague and broad, that they then used this classification and definition to harm the income and the ability for farmers to support themselves and their families. For more information on the case study see the link below.

https://www.jamesmadison.org/waters-of-the-united-states-a-case-study-in-government-abuse/

[The WOTUS definition] defines the “waters of the United States” so generally that federal regulators will have power over almost all of the nation’s waters and much of the nation’s land around those waters. “Navigable waters” and the lands associated with those waters will now fall under EPA regulatory control and will include all “tributaries” (no matter how small or remote), “adjacent” water bodies,” 100-year floodplains, and, on a case-by-case basis, any water within 4,000 feet of a “tributary” or other covered water.

The rule is so broad and vague that federal regulators will be licensed to micromanage property owners who are far away from genuinely navigable waters such as rivers, lakes or the ocean.