(Thank goodness the authorities have busted these hardened front-yard garden criminals - Boing Boing)
Earlier this year, Josée Landry and Michel Beauchamp of Drummondville, Quebec planted the front yard of the future: a gorgeous and meticulously-maintained edible landscape full of healthy fruits and vegetables. Now they’re being ordered by town officials to remove most of their gardens (town code states that a vegetable garden can’t occupy more than 30% of the area of a front yard) in the next two weeks to make their yard conform with newly harmonized town code. Front yard kitchen gardens are not the problem; they’re part of the solution to healthier and more sustainable communities.
What tyranny looks like.
mmm roadside greens :|
What absolute nonsense by the authority! What and who do they think they are protecting?! The garden looks amazing… I...
WTF, man?!
Probably wouldn’t be legal here, either. Some people are so short sighted. This is not only far more pleasant to look at...
I am jealous, I want to do this. Plans for next year I guess.
Stuff like this pisses me off. Like, way down in the pit of my stomach angry. One of the benefits of living in a low...
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