Explaining the Why: Palmetto Berries
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- 08/13/2021 - Harvesting tiny berries can be big money, also big trouble
Palmetto berry harvesting season is fully underway and is already causing headaches for ranchers - and law enforcement.
As Special Operations/Ag-Marine Lt. William Luther discusses in our first-in-a-series “Explaining the Why with IRCSO,” many of those who harvest palmetto berries for sale often trespass on private property and take the berries without a state-issued permit.
Palmetto berries are considered a “commercially exploited” plant and, as such, require a state permit for harvesting for profit.
Between Aug. 1 and 11, the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 26 people for the illegal harvest of the berries and trespassing. In doing so, the agency confiscated approximately 6,000 pounds of the berries. About a third were returned to the property owner, whose property was trespassed in the harvest. The remaining 4,200 pounds were donated to the Friends of the St. Sebastian River, a local non-profit.
The organization will sell the berries to a center in Palm Bay and funnel the berry-money back into improvements and maintenance of the Buffer Preserve. Currently, the berries are going for approximately $2 per pound.
Palmetto berry harvesting season runs through October.
Property owners are encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Office to report trespassers. Berry pickers are reminded they are only allowed to pick on private land if they have the expressed written permission from the property owner as well as a permit from the Florida Department of Agriculture, which is free to get but can take 2 weeks to receive.
So it's okay for y'all to make money off of the berries but not us
I said the same thing “if it was gold”!!!
Never in my life would I have guessed you can live off picking these things lmao
This is a total waste of our taxes. Disgusting 😢
I can also guarantee you the pharmaceutical industry has a lot to do with making this illegal it's one of the most vigilant plants in Florida and it is a pest if you're trying to buy land for growing things or a house you have to eliminate it but now the State of Florida wants you to pay to pick berries and if you pick them legally you have to pick it on public land and not somebody's backyard very very good good video thank you sir
Thank you sir that's the best explanation I've heard so far because we had land a long time ago that it was covered in palmettos and we burned every bit of it to plant gardens but thank you for explaining this it makes sense because I know people will trust pass ruin your property just so they can make a buck or party on your land thank you again
🤣🤣🤣 I'll still pick without a permit
@@DTAFClips yes just ask the owner never trespass i will never get a permit
Knock, knock
who's there??🤣@@joebobjenkins7837
Are the green ones edible?
They are selling these in the streets of Orlando
my backyard is loaded right now in orlando with natrual ones
Permit & Permission
issues with this one, first thing I need to make sure you know is IRC SHERIFF thank you for your time and energy protect and serve. If you please...
Rattlesnakes love these areas .
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Lol I have gopher tortoises and saw palmettos within yards of eachtoerh, the turtles prefer the sand dunes
I never understood the fight for the berries. I just bought some property to build on and I have thousands of these Saw Palmetto plants to be removed for my retirement dream home. I guess there's one place you won't have to watch anymore......and I spose it takes thousands of dollars from poachers pockets I hope..............😂😂
What are you in for
Murder
You?
Picked some berries in the forest.
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Yes sir I run crews for these land owners and ranchers because of the amount of damage poachers cause on their property it’s Ridiculous
So stupid to do the permit though. It's like the war on drugs. Make picking illegal? Price goes up. Now even more reason to pick illegally.
What a lame video😢
Look I'm a Florida boy and we've had to burn thousands and thousands of palmetto bushes for a garden a few years back but now people want to come in your house and take over your house that you haven't lived in since last summer and now people are coming down here just to make money and destroying people's property and you say it's a lame video. That just tells me you're a lame person