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City Officials Are Waging a War on Gardens
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Freedom; Posted on: 2012-07-20 15:21:33 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Yes indeed folks, it has now come to the point where growing a garden is a revolutionary act.
Across the country and even in Canada, cities’ thinking about front
lawns is more than a little bit antiquated. It comes down to this simple
formulation: Grass good! Vegetables bad. We’ve heard one too many
stories in which people decide to use their yards to grow some fresh
vegetables, only to have city officials come down hard on them, forcing
them to tear out their food or bulldozing the gardens themselves. If
building a few bike lanes counts as a war on cars, this is definitely a
war on gardens.
The latest skirmish
took place in Drummondville, Quebec, where Josée Landry and Michel
Beauchamp built what supporters describe as “a gorgeous and
meticulously-maintained edible landscape full of healthy fruits and
vegetables.” (You can judge for yourself: It’s the garden in the picture
above.) Under the town’s new code, a garden like that would be illegal.
It covers too much of the yard. Under the new rules, only 30 percent of
a yard’s area can go towards growing vegetables, and the town’s given
the couple only two weeks to pull out their carefully planted veggies.
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News Source: grist.org
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