Concord's "outlaw gardener" tries to till city land

[RonPaul2012LG]

ADAM (practicing the art of The Ant) @3:55 umm food.

Random Elitist puss filled scum: NO. You will starve during this global Black hole. DO You understand SLAVE? !

[sethzky77]

edible plants are everywhere, you don't need a garden. You need knowledge.

[vornoff1958]

Stick it to the Man (with your pitchforks). Fight the Power. Kill your lawns today.

[logik316]

@vornoff1958

Sorry, but I can't really practice my golf swing with a bunch of tomatoes in my way.

[rainbowsalads]

no wild food near me that humans are keen on for taste, but a few berries in season , no fruit trees, its as if the government one time paid armies in gold to roam around cut and burn any wild food, so the public had to purchase from market and pay tax, gardening is not part of my national curriculum either. cellophane wrap only.

[mirabilo]

What wrong with this?

[Jkills25]

how fucked up were you when you made this 

[hearthowl]

this is one of the coolest stories you've covered Ridley, I'd kill for a follow up to see how the garden is doing.

[Stink808]

I love the idea in principle but will it be okay if police officers come and bag up some produce for their own kitchen? What about a business owner or the mayor? Is it there for any and everyone to eat from? What if a couple of poorer people come and take more than they can eat or kids wish to ride their bikes through it? What if someone picks some to sell it and buy a fishing rod with the money?

I like the guy's understanding that getting arrested for it really isn't the point.

[gwayne919]

yes, isn't the monetary system great for the money grubbing politicians & the corporate liers,bribers, thieves & corrupters of the world. A day will come when there will be a penalty will be paid for the problems caused, but it will be too late when it comes & the world will suffer much worse than it is already suffering. Then there will be revolution that will over correct all of the inequalities of class caused by unregulated commerce, but it will also be too late to correct what is wrong.

[peterjol]

Fruit trees and berry bushes should be growing everywhere but nobody wants you to be able to pick yourself a free apple or pear ....our leaders don't want us to have anything for free. That wouldn't be right in a monetary system.

[Stink808]

the problem with a tree full of free apples free for the taking is that the tall, greedy and the strong will be taking all the apples. The rich will bring in a machine that reaches higher than all the rest and picks more than they can eat.

[peterjol]

Absolutely brilliant....Power to the people!!!

[michelb08]

Lets hope not!

[juliannmc]

I love this guy. What a cool, laidback attitude.

[farmarms86]

the guy that was in town was just asking for it. looks like your in a semi rural area. best of luck with your gardens. :)

[farmarms86]

at least you are using the land for something good. looks like a bunch of trash out there.

[azis1100]

I sense SHEEPLE!

Oh, nm it's just silentnation1

I think any and all who would ban the "growing of food" are the true Terrorists

[SILENTNATION1]

Wow....outlaw community gardener.....REALLY making a big dent on the road to freedom. NUTJOBS....every single one of you.

[farmarms86]

do you know where food comes from? dont say the store. you are a nutjob.

[SILENTNATION1]

the store you are a nutjob. There said it.....give me a thumbs down....cry me a river.

[pmoneil]

We see the outlaw gardener is dragging potting soil to this unclaimed plot of land. So he is doing as his god commanded him. He is gardening. Now to be consistent and use the first ammendment in his defense, he should refrain from gardening on the seventh day, the sabbath.

[pmoneil]

This man is exercising his freedom of religion. He is working the land that belongs to the people. Working is an act of faith in the ten commandments to work 6 days doing field work. That means any work that requires one to carry things from one place to another.

[SeattleBeaver]

Somebody give this chap a wheelbarrow please.

[Liftidly]

Yeah, my wheelbarrows wheels were broken, so i had to use a cooler HA

[diggingforgold]

He better verify that it's not railroad company owned land. He could be trespassing.

Cleaning up and tilling public land is one thing. But private land is a whole other story. :-)

[russellkanning]

very cool ... hopefully he can keep expanding it

[OpenCarryNH]

If you want to Open Carry, drop me a line. I'm always up for open carry fun, especially with 'virgins!'

[GaurdDuck]

I want them to re-legalize swords for public carry. Our society would become much more polite for sure. Hehehe...

[OpenCarryNH]

I wasn't aware swiords were illegal for public carry. At least in New Hampshire.

[dewbie42]

Cool, wish I knew, I would have come out to help out!

[conspiracy777]

Ummm ... sort of a Johnny Apple Seed ... I suppose he would have been arrested in about 2 hours if he were to do what he did in his time.

[odellzz]

This guy is awesome!

[CredoVeritas]

Was the legendary Johnny Appleseed

arrested, fined, or otherwise

for his Johnny apple deeds?

[SoPsychoSexy]

The myth about Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman 1774 1845) is of him spreading apple seeds randomly, everywhere he went. The fact is, he planted nurseries, built fences around them, and left them in the care of a neighbor who sold trees on shares.

Johnny Appleseed had a business model. The crap the guy in the video is pulling doesn't even seem to have a coherent liberty point to it.

What is the protest here? What is the point to this?

[Liftidly]

Someone got arrested doing the same thing... in a video that you so vividly expressed that you thought he should be arrested for! where is your head at?

[CredoVeritas]

The point is perhaps this. Just a simple reminder to anyone willing to realize that which they already know. If you have seed, dirt, a little rain...and fair amount of sun...you can have food....lots of it. It can be planted almost anywhere healthy soil is found.

Most homeowners have a place to do this but choose Instead to spend billions to grow perfectly green and entirely inedible lawns.

[SoPsychoSexy]

Well, you make a good point there. There was some other guy in a previous vid who purposely got himself arrested (for no good reason).

The guy in this vid is actually doing something worthy. But why do it illegally?

New Hampshire State Code is pretty reasonable about these things. These people could follow the law, and then if denied get much more traction from showing the tyranny of the State. And if not denied the public servants involved would help get your good message out.

Win, win.

[logik316]

@CredoVeritas

But then where am I supposed to practice my golf putting?

[informationwarfare]

@logik316 when people are going hungry i think you can put golf aside for a while.

[AngelWithGuns42]

the problem with trying to use "communal" property is that anyone can just come along and destroy the plants or pour poison on them, possibly causing the injury or death of those eating the poisoned food.

another good reason for private property and it's protection.

[cujothekitten]

You do understand that there are community gardens in just about every city in America right?

This isn't a new idea or anything.

[AngelWithGuns42]

and they are routinely vandalized...

not to mention the question of who ACTUALLY eats the food grown in these gardens where you have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what the people next to you have poured on the ground or sprayed their plants with...

go ahead, feel free to eat those unknowns...who are you going to sue if you are poisoned?  The city?

I doubt that...

at least with PRIVATE/BUSINESS food growing operations you have legal recourse to bad/poisoned products...

again, the "commons" equal fail

.

[Liftidly]

Testing the soil ain't that hard...

[AngelWithGuns42]

are you going to test it every day throughout the plant's growth and harvesting or just before...or just during...or just after?

testing on the day of planting doesn't protect against poisoning on the subsequent 78 days of plant growth and food production...

testing in the middle doesn't protect the remaining 39 days...

and testing at the end and/or testing the product itself means that if it's found to be poisoned then you've wasted your valuable time, efforts, and investment..

commune=fail

[Liftidly]

who the hell is so cruel to poison a garden that is pretty damn hard to find?

[AngelWithGuns42]

why ask why?

who knows why some people do what they do?

why would you spend your time, effort, and resources planting crops where you don't have first-person control over the land?

tomorrow they could decide to till it up and put sod on it for a park, or build a road, or build some tennis courts or a hospital?

again, the point is that "the commons idea" fails in more than one way...

the most egregious of which is the gunpoint government theft to acquire it, to maintain it, and to protect it

[Liftidly]

We'll see what happens, but it's not going to become a park.. or a road... or a hospital.. it's near RUNNING railroad tracks mind you, which are in the process of being repaired. I think it'll make it through the summer.

[AngelWithGuns42]

railroads routinely spray incredibly nasty herbicides along their tracks.

wonder how many years the ground around those tracks has been soaking that stuff up?

I'm not saying nothing will grow there, or that none of the crops will make it to maturity, but what I am saying is that toxic and poisonous locations should not be utilized to grow food for people.

it's possible that this is beyond the comprehension of the sheeple who are conditioned and encouraged to regularly consume toxins/poisons

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[cujothekitten]

You don't know much about community gardens do you AngelWithGuns42? It's ok, a lot of people haven't been to them.

May I suggest you actually find out how a community garden operates before you spout out crap about "poisoning". It just makes you look silly.

[AngelWithGuns42]

My posts are a general effort to inform others about the pros and cons of the topic at hand.

Would you leave your personal toothbrush in a public restroom and go there and use it everyday?

Why? Why not? Do you think someone might use it to clean the toilets while you're out for the day?

And if that's the case then why would you assume your unsecured plants and crops are safe from theft or from tampering or from toxins?

What happens when someone else picks it and sells it for profit?

Hmmm.

[GaurdDuck]

I'm a horticulturist who aggrees w/ Angel. Those plants are probably not good to eat and I think he should have grown them in a container garden or in no dig beds. Or perhaps in a raised bed with some kind of waterproof-rootproof barrier in between trucked in soil and the already present dirt. A polyvinylcloride(PVC) pondliner would have worked well.

[AngelWithGuns42]

[sarcasm]a few reasoned voices in the vast wilderness[/sarcasm]

[cujothekitten]

So you're comparing a community garden to keeping your toothbrush in a public restroom?

Would you please just do some simple research and look up how a community garden works? It's not that hard and it doesn't make you look retarded.

What the guy in the video is doing is planting some veggies. This is hardly a community garden or co-op. This is the same thing as sprinkling sunflower seeds in an open field... he's basically just making wild food. He's said as much in the video.

[GaurdDuck]

I think her main point was that the "veggies" are unfit to eat. I once put in a private garden at my mother's house, and a bunch of kids ruined the whole thing. The next year some landscapers put down weed 'n' feed pellets on her lawn. Somehow the poison got into the lettuce(it probably leached from the surrounding soil). All of that year's veggies were inedible. Even the sunflowers. Some plants leaked a wihte sap when cut, pretty much everything but the corn.

[cujothekitten]

The comparison doesn't make sense. Private land is just as open to vandalism as communal property. I can walk down the road and poison any cornfield I want, it's not like there's a fence keeping me out. This also completely ignores the basic operation of a community garden, which does have someone working at it all day long... just like any other business.

Community gardens are there to offer land to people that don't have access to land (i.e. apartment renters).

[Liftidly]

"Private land is just as open to vandalism as communal property" - Thank you cujo...... why would a private garden be any more succeptable to poisoning?

[Liftidly]

haha thank you again cujo, WILD FOOD not a COMMUNITY GARDEN

[sugarpuddin88]

The former head of the federal agency that guarantees the pensions of 44 million Americans invoked his Fifth Amendment rights at a Senate hearing, refusing to discuss his contacts with Wall Street firms bidding for business

Professor Elizabeth Warren who is supposed to look into TARP says she has no idea where the first 350 Billion dollars went - And they won't tell her, (she said it on the Bill Mahers show)

Is this not as bad as the old USSR as far as corruption

[SoPsychoSexy]

Yeah, you can blame our mis-representatives for all that. They don't write the bills, and they don't read the bills. We have the best Congress, Senate, and President money can buy.

All this corruption is our fault. Who is holding these people's feet to the fire?

Americans are suckers. We fall for the same lies year after year. It would be funny, if it weren't so F-ing sad.

[watcher8o]

I appreciate that this particular project does not have as a priority the resulting arrest of the activist.