[Pil-pc-oceania] send by 27Feb: Water for Produce petition - hard copy signatures necessary

[Petra Kahle]

Hi All,
if you live in Victoria and want to sign this petition (or have  
already done so):
it needs to be in hardcopy and back with Marika by next Friday, Feb 28th
greetings, Petra.
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> From: Marika Wagner [mailto:marika at baag.com.au]
> To:
> Sent: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:26:23 +1100
> Subject: Water for Produce petition
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> Thank-you for signing the 'Water for Produce' Petition.
>
> a.. This petition is an important part of our lobby to help our  
> communities grow their own food at home.
> a.. The petition is due to be tabled in parliament on the 11th March
> b.. I need to hand it in to my local member of parliament by the  
> 3rd March.
>
> a.. Had this petition not been online, we'd have never been able to  
> get this much support. Including online and on paper signatures, we  
> now haveover 2561 signatures!
> a.. Unfortunately, currently, the Victorian government will not  
> accept electronic signatures, (as they do in Federal and Q.L.D.)
> b.. So without the online signatures we only have 552.
> Please make your opinion count
>
> and help save the vegie patch!
>
> a.. Please print the attached petition, sign it, get a few more  
> people to sign it, there's 20 spaces per sheet! (as we're bound to  
> lose signatures over this so lets keep the numbers at least to  
> where they were!) and
> post it back to me by the 28th February
>
> Don't let all this work go to waste!
>
> 2000 Thank-you's,
>
> Marika
> Marika Wagner
>
> 6 Manningham Rd West
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> Bulleen, 3105
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> VIC
>
> PS. please email me if you want me to post you out petition sheets.  
> Specify if you want more than one. :)
>
> To the Legislative Assembly of Victoria
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> The Petition of residents of Victoria, draws to the attention of  
> the House,
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> that under Stage 3 water restrictions, we are only able to water  
> our gardens twice a week. Produce gardens are different to purely  
> ornamental gardens in that they provide us with the very fruit,  
> vegetables and herbs we eat. This is the very freshest & therefore  
> healthiest type of food you can get and through recent study it has  
> been shown that home gardeners can potentially grow their own  
> produce with 1/5 of the water than commercial growers per $ value  
> of goods, so we believe it should be our right to be able to grow  
> and eat it.
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> We, the undersigned, know that only being able to water these type  
> of gardens twice a week may be merely enough to keep them alive,  
> but more regular watering is often required, that is before the  
> soil dries out, to keep these gardens productive. Production is the  
> very purpose of produce gardens so they should be given efficient,  
> mindful watering , as required.
>
> The petitioners therefore request that the Legislative Assembly of  
> Victoria,
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> acknowledge and establish that home produce gardens are a different  
> category from ornamental gardens and either allow them an exemption  
> from current water restrictions or; under advice from an  
> experienced, environmentally aware, horticultural organisation, for  
> example, Sustainable Gardening Australia, introduce more  
> appropriate water rules for produce gardens.
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