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Towns Struggle Selling Local Produce

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    Regulations hinder part-time farms

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Everyone wants food from backyard farms but some towns are now making that difficult.

If not impossible.

Like Manny these days Marley and stuff the notes believes the best food.

Local food the question for -- is how to grow locally when there are now so many regulations.

Against.

It's tough to grow local when the regulations stop you from growing write your own backyard last year stops and -- was raising eight pigs on our 139.

Acre farm and came from Massachusetts.

Then the local board of health -- him.

She says they put up so many roadblocks she eventually had to get rid -- -- pigs even though there's been livestock on this farm for over 200 years.

She says local rules and regulations will eventually put an end to local farming.

Your family has been farming here for three generations.

What's gonna happen.

Well.

Unfortunately it's gonna put us out of business this municipal attorney calls that hogwash.

Claiming regulations are necessary.

Whenever you're raising animals.

It's either -- people but each and people living right next -- Wait a second -- to these are eight pigs on a 139.

Acres.

Are we over regulated when you can't raise eight kids on -- 130 not listening they can.

Presentation what we're saying is if you're gonna raise the things we want you to maintain certain standards so that everyone's health and safety is secure.

The board of health says they are only concerned with maintaining people's health and safety.

What what do you say to that.

-- -- risking anybody's -- the over regulation.

Of -- pigs is the health problem that we won't be able to grow food if they keep over regulating us.

And she says when you're not eating local food you're simply not eating as healthy.

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