FARM Lawn Vegetable Farmers Fight the Law and Win!!! Florida

[tm1439m]

For vegetable farmers Jason and Jennifer Halvenston what started off as a front yard vegetable garden soon turned into a legal battle with the city of Orlando Florida. The city was acting more like an HOA than a responsible government in what essentially turned out to be a battle of aesthetics. The city was actually attempting to fine the couple $500 per each day if they did not remove the garden. Working with other lawn gardeners and with a petition with over 10,000 signatures the couple finally won the battle and got to keep their beautiful garden and help others at the same time. Watch the video below to learn more about how they turned this legal battle into a creating a non-profit that helps feed the hungry. With the help of this couples battle, it is now legal to grow your own food anywhere in your yard within the City of Orlando.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5u1QFXmc4A

http://www.offgridworld.com/florida-lawn-vegetable-growers-fight-the-law-and-win/

 

[packyderms_wife]

so translation because they are giving their food away they are allowed to continue to grow said food?

 

[Dennis Olson]

Front yard gardening is as silly as open carry. Unless you have a six foot high fence and motion detectors in your garden, people will just stop by and steal the veggies. Makes no sense to me.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Front yard gardening is as silly as open carry. Unless you have a six foot high fence and motion detectors in your garden, people will just stop by and steal the veggies. Makes no sense to me.

Pretty much here in town if you live on the north side of the street you garden in the front yard, south side of the street the back yard it's all in how the city laid out the trees along the streets and alley ways here as to how much sunlight you have to work with.

With the exception of the lawn nazi's, you know the turds that keep monsatan in business with their chemicals and kentucky blue grass, everyone here in town gardens in some fashion or another, the past year or so raised gardens have become the rage and they vary from my 2x10 cedar wood gardens to if you have the coin white limestone edged gardens.

Another method here that's trending hard, and you see them all along peoples driveways (up against the fence) to get that last little bit of garden in are vertical gardens using palettes, and the like.

From what I'm seeing the upside down tomato plant trend has died off. Should be interesting to see if the vertical gardens stand the test of time or not.

Some peeps even have their gardens in the car park area and while no one complains you can't fence the car park area which means everyone's dog has access to poop or pee on your garden space, to which I say no thank you!

As for people stealing your produce I had about five bushels of tomato swiped one morning out of my backyard and those plants were an actual challenge to get to so they were casing the place and had to work to get my maters.

 

[Wise Owl]

We live in the boonies but our beds are close to the house. If a mouse moves outside, our doodledog hears it. We also have motion sensor lights out there to warn of predators, four OR two leggeds. They would have to get by those and our noisy dog. Now the deer are a different story. They come from behind the house to those beds. I have chicken wire up to deter those buggers. Plus all the beds are enclosed in clear plastic for most of the summer at night cause it gets too cool.

And you can't even see them from the road cause of the trees that line both sides of the driveway and the quonset hut woodshed blocks the view also.

They get by all that, they have to deal with US and we be packin. I work too hard for someone to come filch my veggies.

 

[Wise Owl]

Wrong thread...no idea on what happened here...lol

 

[China Connection]

Ah, a fly maggot farm in the front is the go. Not many want to pinch maggots yet. But wait a while they will get hungry under Obama.

 

[TimeTraveler]

The local government isn't done with them yet. Next they will probably be fined for feeding the homeless. Governments have many ways to misuse the power they have.

 

[kyrsyan]

I garden in the front and side yard because they are the only areas that get enough sunlight. And each year it gets bigger. The backyard my son's play area. And typically barely gets enough sun to heat the water in the small pool.

And, from the video, they won - period. But they took the donations and other stuff that they built up in order to win, and turned it into two separate groups. One to support other folks getting trouble from the cities and another to help others set up their gardens in trade for donations to be given to charity (10%)

 

[naturallysweet]

I have three garden motion sensors. One of them is chewing on a bone as I write and another is doing his hourly inspection fo the garden for anything foreign.

 

[MountainBiker]

Stealing from gardens has long been with us, but I suspect it'll increase with a deteriorating economy. When I was a kid my grandmother told me that their neighbors were stealing veggies from their kitchen garden but they didn't do anything about it because the neighbors were poorer than they were. And this was in a remote village in the interior of the Gaspe in Quebec, which if you've ever been there you'd know how remote that region is.