DENIED:Northern Food Provision & Capacity Building:DENIED

After a year of speaking with numerous Manitoba Government dept's and making a presentation to the Leaf Rapids CEDO, the NEO Frontier Farm initiative has been denied. Here is the letter from the Crown Lands Lease office. Banning plastic shopping bags is one thing, banning small scale, food security farming projects is another... Please contact me with your possible solutions: north56 [at] mts [dot] net click image to enlarge.

Manitoba Crown Land Lease Lead Balloon

Dear Agrinauts, As of 10April07, I have absolutely nothing to report. Having submitted the Crown Land Lease application back in early January, this incredibly tedious process has resolved nothing. I have made many suggestions on improving the application process, not least of which is the creation of a pdf for all applications and a subsequent distribution of same via the net. This would decrease the turnaround time substantially. At present, the NEO application has taken 80 plus days, completely unacceptable for a province that is shoving Manitoba Means Business down our throats. All I can suggest is to exhale and keep your fingers crossed... Think Green! Paul