July 8, 2011
Apparently, Michigan hasn't caught on to the whole local food first idea. Julie Bass, an Oak Park, Mich. woman is facing 93 days in jail for planing a vegetable garden in her own front yard.
"The price of organic food is kind of through the roof, so why not grow your own?" Bass said.
Maybe the cops are working for Whole Foods on the side now?
Actually, the front yard garden violates city code. Oak Park City Planner Kevin Rulkowski simply says "That's not what we want to see in a front yard."
Bass said the neighborhood kids love to help her in the garden and that its a benefit for people to learn how to grow their own food.
Take a look at the picture of the garden above. What do you think about Bass' front yard garden? Eye sore or good idea?
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Comments
July 9, 2011
The last poster just beat me to the "pink flamingo" comment. Seriously, this little box garden is "not what they want to see a front yard?" Wow, maybe they'd prefer trash, drug dealers, or bare dirt... W T F? Also, it's MICHIGAN (where I grew up), a state known for its fruits, berries, vegetables and grains!
July 12, 2011
Wow, I am in the process of converting my yard into edible landscaping. I wonder if the beds were full of flowers would there have been a fuss? I like flowers, but if I am going to fertilize and prune and thin out or hill up, I better get something to eat out of all that effort. So for example, I plant roses that produce edible hips, I grow sugar snap peas up wires instead of ivy, green beans replaced the coleus, blueberries replaced most of the azaleas (I kept a few, they are pretty in the corners of the fence) and such like that. I wonder if MY yard would be 'criminal' there?
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