Bushel Bob Farm Market & Health Foods
On Highway 20 at Quarry Road, Oberlin, OH 44074
One mile west from the Lorain County Joint Vocational School
CLOSED FOR PEACE
Bushel Bob will not offer for-profit retail sales until after the wars.
Bushel Bob loves Oberlin
During the time my family and two of our MacIntosh apple trees moved to Pittsfield Township in 2002, I've planted a garden large enough to allow me the joy of operating a small produce stand from under my porch. During those six years, I've met many wonderful neighbors, including Jacob Luqhardt and the late Charlie Carter who both grew up on Quarry Road. They told me that they went to school in my house when it was the Pittsfield Elementary School. Their teacher lived in Lorain. She rode a streetcar down the middle of State Rte 58 and got off at U.S. Rte 20 where Pizza Hut is today. Then she would walk that mile from September to May against the prevailing west winds to Quarry Road. Jacob's job was to to get to schoolhouse ahead of his teacher and get that stove going so she could thaw out. It was easy to fall in love with Oberlin's village-like, yet cosmopolitan, neighborhood atmosphere.
The year 2002 will always be special. We moved to Oberlin just as we learned that my wife had a potentially lethal cancer. Thanks to God, her chemotherapy worked and she has been cancer-free since.
Global State Terrorism
The year 2002 was also the year, however, that World War III began - first in Afghanistan then spreading to Iraq, Iran and Pakistan. Today in 2008, 44 countries led by Bush and the British are still waging war against the Talibaan in Afghanistan who offended the CIA when they stopped CIA opium production. In 2003, the global corporatists' aggression spread to Iraq where 1.2 million people have since been murdered and another 4 million have fled the Anglo-American carnage, seeking shelter in tent cities that have sprouted up in neighboring countries.
A New World Order
During the past six years, we saw that neocon state terrorists lie, deceive, and kill while trampling on the liberty and freedoms that our Founding Fathers fought two wars against the British to give us. These neocon state terrorists do not like anyone opposed to their corporations. They want to take over the world and their leader, ex-CIA director and former president Daddy Bush, believes they have accomplished this already - declaring in 1989 a "new world order" after befriending the Russians.
A Farmer Fights Back
So what does this have to do with gardening? Looking over my schedule C to my tax return, I've realized that I inadvertently produced extra funds that Uncle Sam used to buy bombs that were dropped on innocent families and farmers. As an Air Force veteran, this gives me moral discomfort. So I've decided not to sell produce until after the wars. In short, I'm closed for peace. The world is going to the global corporatists, but I'm still planting my garden. Rather than sell my extra produce, I've decided to donate it to charity - the Santa Elena Project of Accompaniment, who sells at the Oberlin Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. SEPA helps Uncle Sam's victims in post-war Guatemala from 1980s state terrorism. Closing Bushel Bob to for-profit sales in order to end my indirect complicity in funding global state terrorism is the response of this farmer and veteran for peace.
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