City Grazing: The Landscape Management Company Powered by Goats

This is Lee have even this is our American stories show where America is the star show where the American people and the star.

One of our favorite topics to talk about on the show's history.

The Angels of the 10 were Navy and Army nurse Corps members who were stationed in the Philippines early outbreak of World War II. These nurses faced some of the most grueling conditions of the war from even being captured and held as POWs by the Japanese, is a regular contributor and Claire with the story of one of nursing career for a nice girl in the 1930s.

After all, it was scary physical work required learning far too much information about the absent tax.

However, it was also one of the few opportunities for a young woman who couldn't afford college to continue her education in the Depression-era United States. The $0.16 in our hospital paid wasn't bad either. Georgia born Francis Nash was one of the many young women who ignore social stigma and join the Army nurse Corps. Nash was given the relative rank of Lieut. Meaning she didn't undergo military training and didn't rank us to lose our full pay. She didn't even have an official uniform just insignia to wear on the collar of her light civilian nurses stress. However, she did have the opportunity to volunteer for service overseas in 1940, Nash volunteered for a two-year tour in the Philippines stirrings of war on the horizon concerned her family and friends was now really good time to go abroad. Nash responded to the effect that if war were coming. The Philippines would be where nurses were needed.

She wasn't the only one who thought so United States preparations for war were slow and incomplete, but they had already begun increasing the medical staff of the six Philippine military hospitals, five Army and one Navy doubling the complement of nursing staff on Monday, December 8, 1941, which would be December 7 back in United States on the other side of the international dateline Nash and her fellow nurses awoke to news of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Three hours later the first Japanese planes struck the Philippine within two weeks. Japanese forces landed. Gen. MacArthur removed to Corregidor and evacuation of US and Filipino forces to tan Peninsula began on Christmas Eve. Lieut. Nash is evacuation preparations were interrupted or commanding officer Col. JW Duckworth called her. He told her that she would be expected to remain behind in Manila until all of the staff and supplies were evacuated from the hospital.

She was also told to prepare herself to be taken prisoner. She spent her Christmas working in surgery and burning documents.

That night she was evacuated by boat. The waters lit by blazing buildings on the land and ship eventually after some time spent in axles and leaned through the jungle – arrived to serve in hospital number one on the Petén Peninsula. The most forward of the hospitals she and the other medical staff worked through the long disheartening struggle to hold the tan struggling to save lives, not all of her patients were American or Filipino. At times medics would bring the wounded Japanese into the surgery. Many of them were items they'd taken from American troops as spoils more Japanese had not signed the Geneva Convention, which declared medical facilities off-limits as military targets and snatches hospital suffered for it.

After an attack on 6 April of 1600 bats, only 65 were left standing. Three days later the remaining defenders of the tan surrendered. A month later, Gen. Wainwright surrendered Corregidor along with thousands of US and Filipino troops who surrendered more than 60 nurses including hash, were taken as prisoners of war. Three years of captivity Nash and the other nurses would continue to care for the wounded and for the sick nursing may not been considered a nice profession in polite society, but as the monument on Corregidor, which commemorates the service of Nash and her fellow nurses shows in the eyes of some. They were far more than nice. They were angelic. The inscription reads in honor of the valiant American military women who gave so much of themselves in the early days of World War II. They provided care and comfort to the gallant defenders of the tan cargo door. They lived on a starvation diet shared the bombing and strafing spanking sickness and disease while working endless hours of heartbreaking duty. These nurses always had a smile a tender touch and a kind word for their patients. They truly earned the name the Angels tan and part dedicated on this sixth day of May 2000 and a great job on the production by Margie Montgomery and a special thanks to employer sharing with us the story of Francis Nash volunteered for service overseas to your tour of duty in the Philippines. Starting in 1940, probably no tougher place to be in the world, the place she ended up being about December 1941, just hours after Pearl Harbor was attacked and became the Japanese into Manila and into the Philippines from their became a POW and this is the work during the service summary of our women showed during World War II.

We showcase those stories. Francis Mr. story Angels and Petén here on our American stories. Here, the horse fell American stories everyday on the show were bringing inspiring stories from across this great country are big cities and small tombs, but we truly can't do the show without our stories are free to listen to what they're not freedom of love L American stories.com click the donate button a little before L American stories.com. Geico asks how would you love a chance to save some money on insurance. Of course you would when it comes to great rates on insurance.

GEICO can help like with insurance for your car, truck, motorcycle, boat and RV even help with homeowners or renters coverage plus at an easy to use mobile app available 24 hour roadside assistance and more. And GEICO is an easy choice switch today and see all the ways you can save it's easy.

Simply go to Geico.com or contact your local agent today we return to L American stories, no time for another rule of law story is a part of our rule of wall series will show you the absence or presence of the rule of law in our lives is our own monthly Montgomery with the store Danielle Michaelson's story begins in Rob North Dakota so I may North Dakota native. I grew up about 30 miles from where I currently live. I married my high school sweetheart.

I went to University of North Dakota to be a high school English teacher, which I immediately started doing when I graduated in 1990 so I was an English teacher for 22 years, but the entire time that I was doing in raising my kids. I was always gardening. It was in my blood. My grandmother was a gardener. My mom and dad were gardeners.

I just seemed like the thing people did you know you had to have a garden you had to produce your own food you had to save it for the winter.

You have to can and process. Of course, cook homemade meals so we were always food producers but the producers just for our family. 2014.

I was still teaching and still gardening and my who were then 14 and 12 wanted to make a little money to go visit their grandparents who live in Las Vegas in the wintertime and I told them they could sell all of our extra vegetables that are farmers market. We set up a card table and the bowls from my kitchen and they sold green beans and potatoes and onions and they made $72 and they were beyond excited at how great they were at and over the course of the next few years, we grew our tables grew our tents grow started canning everything from pickles to salt to jams and jellies and it became an intense passion. This growth of this business became a passion and all of a sudden I realized that my heart needed to be in the garden and not in a classroom anymore and that was the year that I decided that was the last time that I would leave my garden at the end of August that the next August, I would be there with it and I would no longer be in the classroom. I quit teaching my world and my passion has changed and I needed to take Daniel would name her business Michaelson tiny plants but why so Michaelson tiny plants because when our kids were really little. They were tiny tiny humans and even as they grew, they were still little little people and we always referred to them as tiny pants come here tiny pants and I feel like I feel like every time that when I start my tiny plants growing in the spring. It's like growing your children.

There's this attachments to this life that's coming out of the ground and it's ground that belongs to me and is nurtured by me and I watched them watch the plants grow in a watch them produce food and remember one of the years at first years I was teaching had been reading an article about food security and how people often don't have food security in their life and I was standing in the middle of my garden and he realized that I was. It was my food security, and I could help make it food security for my community which is important to roll is providing a service. Nobody else does in her city and giving people options such as healthy food is a very long distance from where the majority of vegetables are grown that end up in our grocery store.

The average time from when a vegetable is picked till it gets to Raleigh.

North Dakota is between 10 and 14 days. If you take a look at the science of food. The minute you pick up fresh vegetable it starts to lose nutrients and I started thinking about you know that that loss of nutrients by the time he gets to the grocery store and how I could provide to our community. Food that had been picked literally the day before. You know, we also have a practice that we believe in no waste and we just decided to start using our what we were growing in products that had a little bit longer shelf life. So some of the overage goes into jars and we just started putting a few out on that on the table with our vegetables and realize that we had a following the were coming back and asking for more meat. 1950 jars last year of dill pickles and from there we started looking at what you couldn't get Raleigh, North Dakota, Raleigh, North Dakota. One thing was sourdough bread no way to get fresh sourdough bread.

We don't even have a bakery in Rolla.

We do tomato juice. We do a spicy tomato juice and so we use our peppers and onions and jalapenos and our tomatoes and we make a coldpressed juice that we can and then one day the food freedom bill was passed that allowed us to start processing food into other things, otherwise known as House Bill 1433 the cottage food act was passed by the elected officials in the North Dakota Houston seven open the door for Daniel's business to expand even more. You see, before the bill passed. Things like pizza and French onion soup could only be sold out of somewhere with a commercial pitch.

Now Daniel and others consult part of their own kitchens directly to their customers. People been doing this forever right you make muffins and take them over to your neighbor and give them to them and they enjoy them in your neighbor said can you make me for doesn't want them for my family and you could point out that you could give them to them, but you couldn't sell them, which seems strange to me that cottage food law actually read as long as the transaction is person-to-person.

As long as the producer of the food is handing the food to the consumer and the consumer can questions and to click product and decide if they trust you and inherently that's what the small business is about right friendships and trust then you can sell that really made a huge difference for people who wanted to try starting a small business, no biting the bullet and putting in $100,000 commercial kitchen because you think you might be good at something is a little scary but you can actually do a test market using your own test market. Now you can try selling things how did I know that so many people were going to love my dill pickles.

My family loves him but does that mean that everyone who tries them actually will come back to buy more. We didn't know, and so is our business grew that you know what the big deal with each food law allowed was for people to start to expand and for us. That's exactly what it meant business grew egoist. This so I quit teaching in June 2017 and the cottage food law passed in August 2017 so it was just this man's excitement that when I had trance, you know, when I quit teaching to become a small food producer.

This was like another door opened in front of me again and I could just envision where my business could go.

It was just that it was a reason reinforcing my decision to be a small food surrender businesswoman and it was it was like the stars aligned right. I quit teaching I put all my energy into this and then this magical door opened and I could use all my creativity and all my planning and thoughts to grow my business literally straightforward, at least that's what Daniel thought would happen with the new bond place he didn't expect the face of lawlessness from her own government and was good to Daniel Michaelson told the story of her own freedom to pursue her passion turned out, the passion was in the garden when we come back more of the story role North Dakota Daniel Michaelson stored freedom story and watched on our American store and we continue with our own stories and the story of Daniel Michaelson was left off. Daniel was growing the business was once a man is helping him by the passage of the cottage with the smooth sailing last much longer contribute with her store.

Everything seemed to be going well for Daniel Michaelson North Dakota Department of health. Other ideas and try to get rid of the cottage food laws which allow Daniel to sell food she otherwise could mediate was a whirlwind. That's right. We weren't even sure how this could possibly be happening that the health department decided that they were worried about the safety of these fluids, even though there was no foodborne illness in farmers market produce cottage foods produced foods since the passing of the law and they tried to have the lock changed and they failed the field because the North Dakota legislature used to make the changes to the law but the health department wanted, but after this the health department anyways which is a violation of the rule of law because administrative bodies can't pass laws on their own, they could only carry out laws, but the legislature passed. I suddenly had to stop selling my soup. I suddenly had to put all of my ideas on hold and I was just shocked. I was shocked that this is where we got because like I said I was elated with what could come and then it was just stopped dead over this fear for food safety and faulting them for that.

But the one thing I stressed over and over again is when you buy a jar of salsa from me or you by quart of soup from me. I actually take what I feed my family from the exact same supply and I am going to be above and beyond careful about what I am providing to people for sale because that's the exact same food that I'm feeding my family and cottage food producers feel.

Also a business model.

The reality is is you make one person sticking your business is done so small business can't ride out in E. coli outbreak on romaine like across the nation. Small business has to be on top of their game and specific in particular and perfect at all times. That's what we were surprised when these rules came out because we felt like we were. We were the best of the best right and suddenly were the ones that are suffering under the administrative rules. It almost makes you feel like you're not intelligent enough to know better that my customers were just heartbroken that they couldn't get the soup that they had learned to depend on and are so funny because all of the people that live in my community are they all have the ability to cook and cook well but French menu soup takes a very long time to caramelize all those onions and they always like to say you know I could make this myself but I'd much rather you did it because yours is so good that I don't have to do all the work and they come to market and they want to buy soup and I have to say I'm sorry but the health department made rules and I can't tell you soup anymore, and then the crazy part is if you are if you are, you know, an English teacher from the town of 1400 you even know what you can do to fight no clue. I didn't have the resources to hire an attorney to fight was even sure what the fight would be and for the most part you know were just rule following law lighting. He people and we don't get put in places where were suddenly fighting against administrative rules I'd never even heard that term before. I'll probably when I was in high school before, but never thought about it since high school. I didn't even know what to do and that's why setting on a business statement and in my and my hopes and dreams sort of died for a second. I just cannot go down and went back to work.

I guess we'll just sell fish and vegetables and the things that we can bacon and cannon will give up soup and that's just how it will go he just sort of resign yourself and terrible thing to say about what happened to me.

Thankfully she would be approached by the Institute for Justice public interest law firm that stands up for Americans when the rights are violated at no cost to people like Danielle so thankful for the Institute for justice because I didn't even know we could find it and suddenly they showed up can elective your knight in shining armor and there like we can help you. And I'm like you gotta be kidding me like no we can help you. You just have to be willing to stand up and be note the plaintiff in the case and here we go.

They explained to me that it was unconstitutional and I have even thought of it on that level what they did unilaterally with the with the administrative rules was circumvent what the entire House and Senate know they had spoken were not changing the law. They circumvented the entire process when they had already voted it down. There was also a second violation of the rule of law, the North Dakota Constitution states that people have to be treated equally under the law, but the rules created by the health department didn't do that. You see, the regulations allow a farmer to sell uninspected raw poultry will banning a home-cooked like Danielle from selling chicken noodle soup that makes no sense.

It's completely arbitrary and thankfully the court sought that way to enroll the Daniels favorite day they want and we just got this email that you won your case and that was it was over and all of a sudden my brain just spun thinking about all of the way that this it opened the store for me again and it was time to not worry about being stopped and just barrel forward and we have new goals now and the goals are super funny super interesting are super ironic however you want to see it. But our next goal is to build a large-scale indoor market that will actually have a commercial kitchen and commercial kitchens will allow us to ship and so even though my flight was for cottage food which means I can cook it in my kitchen. My long-term goal gets me a commercial kitchen and then I'm on the other side crossed over, but the reality without the cottage, food, ability, I would've never been able to build my teeny tiny business that started in 2014 to a place where I'm ready to build a facility and have a commercial kitchen so maybe in one more year we will be looking at building a new facility right on Main St., Medwatch fee. Now this business is going to grow like crazy and great job as always to Monty Montgomery and a special thanks to the folks of the Institute for Justice represented Daniel Michelson and represented her freedom to sell food on an equal playing field and also for the people of North Dakota allowed them to this kind of food and not have it blocked by people who weren't represented in their state legislature. These rules were passed and promulgated by people with the Department of Health Department of Health doesn't have the right, North Dakota do such things but was transmitting was listening to Daniels sheer frustration is that I didn't know what to do.

I didn't even know what the fight was or who works what you could do about the Institute for Justice and welded what they do is represent mostly small businesses and rule of law and property rights.

The story of Daniel Michelson. The story of Michelson tiny plant and about so much more particularly, the rule of law on our American stroke.

We returned to our American stories about mixed story about when or 33rd president made an all-important visit was small town in his or her own Monty Montgomery with the store Dexter pilot small town with a lot of hard even though it's population has never exceeded a thousand people. There's a lot of history. The Barrow gang had been issued out there. They hosted an amusement park at one point it was also once a presidential campaign stop the stop for that election fraud family on September 19. Pres. Truman came to Dexter. I will for the national plowing batch. It was a big deal the vessel plowing about the big big what exactly is a plowing roughly put, it's a competition to see who was the best form to judge them in the judge, the more different things about the tractor wells and there were judges that judge how well you plow the field house. It was how open it was they had smothered what conservation like making a pot limit upon all my uncles form and blew up pledges of dynamite in the blue whale in the middle waterway graywater often stuff this was a statewide.

Thanks. It was a national bank to so there you have lots of people coming in from the other was an airport south of Dexter Southwest Dexter that they like 120 airplanes brought brainy people. They decimated the crowd between 75 and 100,000 how did Pres. Truman even get involved boils down to the drive of a radio personality. Truman's opponent and like a lot of things in politics poll numbers. The guy he was right. It goes with a fellow by the name of Thomas Dewey from New York and Thomas Dewey was so far ahead in the polls. Her plan famous WHO form personnel was in charge of organizing this whole thing in her plan back called for with talk Thomas Dewey and ask him you want to be the headliner out here Dexter and talk to these people. Doing in so many words I pretty doing pretty well in the polls.

I don't think I need to come out to Iowa to talk these so her plan back then called up and schedule a meeting with with Truman normally there are a limited time basis with the talk of the presence of big Dave made an appointment to talk to Truman actually went over the time limit is Truman like talking Truman was one of those guys like to talk to.

He was a former farmer to me. As far as the farming occupation forgot in politics and he said well boys I said I would really like to come out but he says I don't think the Secret Service will allow me to do what I want to do in us to go out and mingle, talk to people in and so on. So when her plan back left that meeting, he thought, will guys.

I don't think the improvements and so you're kind of stuck that way until like three weeks before the White House calls her plan backups is Truman's, through regrets because they had to make sure that no security had to be better than a lot of things that had to do to perfect the president Truman started over use of Iowa in Davenport on the Rock Island railroad line, the one roasted Dexter and flows across the state that he gave a speech better early in the morning that he gave a speech at Oxford. I want to live in a speech in Grinnell and a speech and voice in the world would pick up his wife Bess and his daughter Margaret Boyd and they rode the train out the Dexter band Dexter band was there to meet Truman the blue that played the Missouri walls more inwardly when he arrived at the depot Dexter had brought his Cadillac is robin egg blue Cadillac out quarter-mile cool been styles about three days before everybody was wondering what the heck was that was going on, bring up blue Cadillac out here. Eventually they figure that out. That was the president will be stopping them and going out plowing batch but he was concerned, still concerned about the Secret Service block style, but became anyone. The people said were sitting with Truman when Truman saw the crowd. Truman saw how big the crowd was.

He said his you had a smile from year to year.

He was just love it if you say this is going to give me an opportunity to really get my camp.

I'm so far behind.

It can't hurt to give me a chance to hammer home. My point. The majority of these farmers that attended world of Republican persuasion, but he got 13 innovations a day and he really hammered on the Republicans. The do-nothing city called the do-nothing Congress was his first major campaign speech of the 1948 election. He used this type of campaign. The whistle stop using the train traveling around stop and talk in small towns, the people to actually turn the tide. It's interesting when Thomas Dewey found out hundred people hundred thousand people showed up, Dexter, Iowa. He got a little nervous and he actually got the Republicans in Iowa to have campaign thing for him in the more than they actually got like 15,000 people to hear Thomas doing which is a pretty good crowd, but nothing like Truman but anyway when Truman was here at lunch we have stuff in the museum.

The tablecloth actually that was on the table that he ate off of. But anyway he ate lunch out there. Had fried chicken dinner mashed potatoes and corn relish tray at all apple pie different kinds of pie and then he went went on a wagon to look at some of the projects are conservation projects that they were doing that day. It was only a plowing contest with some like making a pond in the remake and waterways they were doing some other stuff conservation things out there about the matter is well but anyway he went out to and he was on the back of a hay wagon the course.

The Secret Service was with him and they were there cruising along Secret Service looked around, Truman was on the wagon anymore. Jumped off the wagon and he was heading down to where they were making this pod and we called Walker's paw back when I was on Howard Walker's properties. Piper property back there but anyway so those people that were on the bulldozers had actually been told by the Secret Service earlier that if Truman came down there to turn off the bulldozers and you just sit on the bulldozers so the president was asked questions and that kind of thing and so that's what they did this all who saw the sky coming down the street with some of recognize and submit for bulldozers. Often Truman got down there which is chatting with them like you don't like you normally chat with people he said will what you turn off your bulldozers for you guys got work to do this or we were told by the Secret Service to to do that. Truman said well this is the next time ask you to do that. Utilities also be used with you're going to do that. Just keep right on working. They got a big laugh out of that course of signatures gives them and puts it back on the wagon and away they go.

That was Truman but he did get to talk to some of the people out there, but like I said this. This was a huge boost to his is turn the tide as far as his his election he was really the only one in the articles I read he was only one. Even his wife are given up so far behind that is the losing issues that we need start packing things up back to Missouri and live in independence warehouse.

Learn want to give up the election came in November he was listening to him.

He was holding his own doing wasn't blowing them away. He goes to bed thinking that probably the next morning that no maybe I will be present. He was kind of quiet confidence, he thought.

He thought it was going when the next morning. The results are ruled in Truman's wedding is going to end up winning the election as a huge, huge, upset, and there was no way that he was supposed to win but they say that where it all started right here in a one horse town Dexter I will note in September for the great job as always on the production and the storytelling by Monty Montgomery and a special thanks to Ron Stanley of the Dexter Museum and Dexter Dexter is one light town in the small museum is right off the main street running through it. If you're in the neighborhood, drop by and take a visit. We love visiting these really small small towns and telling stories about them in the national plowing match 1948 helps propel Truman to victory the story of Dexter and Harry Truman's campaign victory here on our American store