Florida couple wins the right to plant veggies in front yard

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[–]Ash 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Florida lawmakers really don't have anything better to do? Meddling in the rights of property owners. I wonder if there's more to the story when they have done it for 17 years without any problems. That's the best thing the couple could do and we all should do it if we have the resources-Growing our own food in our yards, independent from big corporations that want to sell us their trash food.

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its ridiculous, i cant believe the rules they some times made up in the USA

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know that Cody (of Cody's Lab) has had his run ins with Utah law. Grass is wasteful of water and labor to cut it. He planted a garden in his front lawn instead. The city came along and wrote him several tickets.

This is dumb. Grass is stupid. It's a holdover from when wealthy landowners could afford to have land that wasn't used for agriculture. It was a sign of ostentatious wealth. As long as it looks tidy, who cares if it is a garden instead of grass? Incredible waste of billions of gallons of fresh potable water every year. And with the aquifers now being depleted at an alarming rate. What will people say about our society 100 years from now? (If there are still people.)

In my area this isn't an issue, plenty of people have ripped out their grass and put in a garden, raised beds, or even (shocked) native plants.

[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They didn't win the right, it was already their right to do what they wished with their own property. Florida was infringing on that right, and they successfully defended against them.