Bernie 🌽 Home Grown Sweet Corn 6 for $3.49

[Donkees]

@Celentra

[Vinca]

1. I like that carved raccoon in the corn display. Love this time of year in VT/NH.

[mcar]

2. 6 for $3.49?

That's a high price. I get them for 25 cents.

[Klaralven]

3. But it's "home grown"

Probably organic, free range and all that...

[mcar]

4. I get corn from a local farm here in FL

It's about 2 miles away from me. Can't say if it's organic, though.

[George II]

22. "Free range" corn? I've never seen ears of corn running around a cornfield.

[Jim G.]

18. That Must Have Been An Important Purchase

For you to sign up multiple times to talk about.

[George II]

33. ...

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Just bought 4 ears here at $.05 each.

[Maraya1969]

6. Do you live in the middle of a corn field or something? eom

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Yeah, central Illinois. It's all corn fields.

[LanternWaste]

8. Amazing. Incredible. Highly relevant.

Not a puff-piece at all. I wonder if anyone's ever purchased ears of corn from a farmer's market before, or if BS is the first.

[karynnj]

9. Many people do - there are farmers markets all over the place in VT

All I can say is that their vegetables and the CSAs are very very good.

[George II]

28. All over New England, and most of New York State and New Jersey for that matter.

[Me.]

31. THey Are On The Streets Of NY

Every weekend behind the Natural History Museum and at 94th street on Fridays to name a few.

[SidDithers]

10. +1...nt

Sid

[betsuni]

11. Buying ears of corn from a farmer's market was considered a radical idea until Bernie did it first,

and now it's mainstream.

[Me.]

12. Tee Hee Hee

when I first saw the OP I thought it was implying he had grown it, now I see we are extolling a buy.

[sheshe2]

13. Who knew?!

Actually I go straight to the farm that is a mile from my house. It is beautiful there.

[betsuni]

17. One ear of corn costs the equivalent of about $1.80 at my local supermarket and

the few times I've been to a farmer's market there wasn't much for sale (been a cool wet summer). You're lucky to live near a farm!

[sheshe2]

19. Beautiful farmhouse and the outer buildings...

A small store and restaurant, rustic. They sell a lot of their produce to our local market along lots of sunflowers.

[George II]

25. We have four farms pretty local here - 1 mile, 2 miles, 3 miles, and 3-1/2 miles away....

And if we drive about 7 miles to the town where my wife grew up, we can pick our own corn (and apples, strawberries, and raspberries)

Local fruits and vegetables are nothing revolutionary in New England.

[sheshe2]

30. Farmers markets have been here for a long time.

Part of the point I made here was that Bernie is focused on white farmers of VT.

Demographics
Vermont Demographics
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Vermont was:

White: 94.16%
Two or more races: 2.02%
Asian: 1.68%
Black or African American: 1.36%
Other race: 0.39%
Native American: 0.34%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.05%

https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/vermont-population

He should focus on black farmers left behind. I left some links below.

[George II]

32. I saw them, good posts and sources. Yes, forgotten over the decades (indeed, last century +)....

....is the fact that when slaves were freed and given land, little was done to give them the resources to actually WORK that land.

Their descendants are among the Black farmers that were left behind that you speak of.

[sheshe2]

34. Yep.

A judge ordered a stay, they called it reverse racism. SMDH

[Donkees]

15. Bernie Sanders is the first Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee discussing farming and

land stewardship plans in the upcoming reconciliation bill with local farmers, as he shops. Bernie is always working.

Sen. Sanders is proud of Vermonters’ pioneering work in the local and sustainable food movement. He has successfully advocated making local food part of school lunches and nutrition assistance programs. Sen. Sanders strongly supports farmers’ markets, value added agriculture, and agri-tourism.

Moreover, many of Vermont's small, family farms thrive by selling organic food that is raised to exacting standards, and Sen. Sanders has long believed that protecting and promoting Vermont's small family farms - both vegetable and dairy - is essential to maintaining Vermont’s rural economy.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/issues/

[sheshe2]

20. VT is very white.

What about the black farmers?

‘Rampant issues’: Black farmers are still left out at USDA

The agency granted loans to only 37 percent of Black applicants last year in one program that helps farmers pay for land, equipment and repairs but accepted 71 percent of applications from white farmers, according to a POLITICO analysis of USDA data. In a grant program to help producers weather the coronavirus pandemic, farmers of color received less than one percent of the payments even though they are five percent of all U.S. farmers.

In addition to forgiving debt, advocates for Black farmers want the administration to address barriers such as loan terms that favor large, wealthy farms, a complex application process, and poor service and inequity at local USDA offices.

“This data affirms what our elder farmers have been saying about the U.S. Department of Agriculture for decades,” said Tracy Lloyd McCurty, executive director of the Black Belt Justice Center, a legal and advocacy nonprofit that represents Black farmers. It reveals the “abysmal failures” of previous legal settlements in dismantling pervasive racial discrimination, she said

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/05/black-farmers-left-out-usda-497876

When will the first Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee discuss the disparity of black vs white?

[sheshe2]

21. Black US Farmers are awaiting Billions in Promised Tax Relief.

Just two generations out of slavery, by 1910 Black farmers had amassed more than 16 million acres of land and made up about 14 percent of farmers. The fruit of their labors fed much of America.

Now, they have fewer than 4.7 million acres. Black farms in the U.S. plummeted from 925,000 to fewer than 36,000, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest farm census. And only about one in 100 farmers is Black.

What happened?

They were able to overcome the broken promise of “40 acres and a mule” to the newly freed slaves — a military order, later rescinded. But over the last century, they faced one obstacle after another because of their race.

Farmers needed loans to expand, to buy seed, to bridge the time between harvests. But lenders — chief among them, the USDA — often refused to give them money, and often rushed to foreclose. Suppliers and customers undercut them. Laws of inheritance led to the breakup of homesteads.

Now the government wants to make amends by providing billions of dollars in debt forgiveness for farmers of color as part of the pandemic relief package. But a judge has put the money on hold in the face of lawsuits filed by white farmers claiming that the program is unfair — reverse discrimination.


Much More: https://apnews.com/article/Battle-for-Black-Farms-e1034c6701f55a3a5362447e0354c4cd

[George II]

27. Inasmuch as farm subsidies have been in the budget since the Great Depression (90 years ago)....

....on what do you base the comment that Sanders is the "first chairman of the senate budget committee discussing farming and land stewardship plans"?

[sheshe2]

35. Bazinga.

Everything is old is new again.

[sheshe2]

24. ;)

[George II]

23. Wow! $3.49 for six or $0.59 each. You save 8/10th of a penny each if you buy six! By the way....

....local corn around here (90 miles from Vermont) is about $0.50 an ear, about $0.35 if you pick it yourself.

[MerryBlooms]

26. I'm paying 4 for $5 at our local stores here in Medford, OR,