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Just saw this - due today at 5 MI Dept. of Agriculture & Rural Development Seeking Public Input on Agricultural Management Practices Contact: Heather Throne 517-373-1085 July 20, 2012 ... LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Michigan...

Potential places to contact for help with our fight – Mother Earth News, Forgotten Harvest, Local Motion Green, American Farmland Trust - http://farmland.org/programs/localfood/default.asp, There are a lot of fb groups about byc, urban homesteading and buying local, maybe contact some of...

The problem with showing up to the meeting is geography. Not everyone is able to make the meetings because of the distance. Should we be contacting our state reps about this?

I agree we should find out about become an offical urban farming group. This would also cover issues like the Oak Park woman who couldn't plant veggies out front. No idea where to start but we need to keep the language out that allows site selection to pertain only to areas that are ag zoned...

Wingless thank you so much for that! I appreciate your efforts and will see if I can what I can do up for the next meeting.

Should we start a list of legislators at various levels of government who support BYC?

Thanks Wingless! I have to look into that. Three minutes isn't a lot of time but maybe co-ordinate the people going and have each speak specifically to a point for 3 minutes? I'm sure hubby won't let me go but I would be happy to help "speech write" if this idea interests anyone.

Find a lawyer and see if we have a case but I think a class action can only be against one city - a class of people taking action against the city. However, perhaps a class action against the state for not upholding it's own laws? Class action of a few people in one city against that city...

I am not sure the purpose of sending council a letter of intent if they have just voted it down. If you intend on raising hens for the purpose of selling their eggs, do it. If you are later told it is against the bylaws, respond that because the hens are for commercial production and eventual...

This is from a few years ago http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://record-eagle.com/grandtraverse/x75075100/Chickens-coming-home-to-roost-in-TC doesn't this help us?

@Raz - do you sell your extra eggs? If so, do you have records showing you are a business - a farm?

I thought someone had posted here that he was in violation because he didn't have the 1 acre require by Troy for a maximum of 12 chickens, I was wondering who told you it was .75 and if there was some kind of a maximum number allowed

CaraBear I disagree. Assuming RTF covers all farming operations regardless of zoning, right now a person in a residentially zoned area of Detroit could start a farm with chickens and be protected by RTF as long as GAAMPS etc are followed. Passing this bill means that Detroit would be exempt...

My thinking is when a city tells you RTF doesn’t apply to your 3 or 4 hens in a residentially zoned area you can ask them why this legislation is being proposed if RTF doesn’t apply.

This is a bill to restrict the RTF protection in Detroit so that we don’t have “pigs right next door to somebody trying to raise a normal family”. To me that means that without this bill, RTF would protect the rights of the “pig raising family” if the pig was being raised as a farming activity...

Thank you VikkiP for all your help.

@Raz if these reports from neighbors were complaints, ask for copies of the complaints.

If the city allows a certain (low) number of hens does the RTF protect someone who needs to have more hens in order to have excess eggs to sell? If so, how does that work? Would someone pay for a permit for x number of hens and then have the extra hens without a permit?

What I read in GAAMPS did not state a distance from anywhere. It was more the amount of space that was allowed per hen.

I am confused, does this mean that the judge interpreted RTF to apply only if there are 5000+ hens or only if there are 4999 or less? I thought that regardless of the size of the operation, you are covered if you sell some eggs and comply with GAAMP regardless of local ordinances.