Actually, the bluegrass primitive is trying to set something up here.
He's outlining the problem of cold weather so as to assure the primitives that's why the occupoopers will disappear as autumn wanes on into winter.
And then he's hoping that by next spring, as the weather gets better, when the seed doesn't germinate into new life, the primitives'll have forgotten all about the protests anyway.
It's a good strategy, a good manipulation, going on there.