All I Am Saying is Give Peas a Chance.

[+ purplekow]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/julie-bass-jail-vegetable-garden_n_893436.html?1310504685&icid=maing-grid7%7Caim%7Cdl7%7Csec1_lnk3%7C77459

 

This article concerns a town in Michigan pursuing legal action against a woman for planting a vegetable garden in her front yard. The ordinance of the town states that a front yard planting should be "grass....or other suitable planting." The town contends that vegetables are not suitable. She has received a warning, then a ticket and now the town is now pursuing legal action. She has hired a lawyer.

 

One wonders that especially in this economy whether government at any level should be pursuing this kind of legal action, wherein growing food on your property is not suitable. So are there any out there that side with the government and feel this breach is one which demands intervention? All i am sayings is give Peas a chance. Beet it. Live Beets or Die. Don't tread on Peas. Remember the framers were farmers.

[+ deej]

I do understand where municipal gripes like this come from. We like to eat those yummy garden goods, but some critters do too and there are some that we don't want to encourage to hang around.

 

That said, the city should get over it. She has it under control. It isn't a weed-infested mess from the sound of it. If she's like some gardeners I know she'll be donating excess produce to local food banks. (And I wouldn't mind being a guest at her dinner table when the crops are coming in!)

 

This is probably the result of a complaint from a crabby neighbor. Tell the neighbor to plant his/her own damn crops and get over it!

[orbital sander]

IMHO this is a city at its worst...seems like there is little common sense left in government (any)

[Guest DuchessIvanaKizznhugg]

This is probably the result of a complaint from a crabby neighbor. Tell the neighbor to plant his/her own damn crops and get over it!

 

http://www.companyofmen.org/showthread.php?79635-Caption-This-(Mar.-22)&p=708734#post708734

[KMEM]

Still funny, Duchess.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[jawjateck]

With this economy headed back to the 1930s....or worse, the 1830s, I think we will all have to go back to "living off the land". I'm glad I own a small square, and could farm it if I had to.

[leigh.bess.toad]

On behalf of all those who like to grow their own vegetables, all that can be said to government is "Lettuce Alone" (the only ingredients of The Honeymoon Salad)

[nate_sf]

http://www.purplemoon.com/Stickers/bumper/peas-visualize.jpg

 

The article says the city code states "all unpaved portions of the site shall be planted with grass or ground cover or shrubbery or other suitable live plant material." I think a vegetable garden complies and is considered "suitable live plant material," and I do not agree with the interpretation of the city planner quoted in the article.

 

Home gardening is a big movement all across the country, even in places where the climate does not lend itself to growing edible plants, so it's just a matter of time before this jurisdiction gets a clue.

[uwsman2]

When I saw the title to this thread, I thought it might be a reference to the President's press conference on the debt ceiling negotiation the other day. He made some kind of remark about having to eat our peas, and I immediately thought his public affairs staff was going to be spending hours placating congressmembers and lobbyists from agricultural states.... That's what comes from watching The West Wing.

[+ deej]

When I saw the title to this thread, I thought it might be a reference to the President's press conference on the debt ceiling negotiation the other day. He made some kind of remark about having to eat our peas, and I immediately thought his public affairs staff was going to be spending hours placating congressmembers and lobbyists from agricultural states.... That's what comes from watching The West Wing.

 

I thought the same thing. And I suspect the president heard from the Pea lobby.

 

I gave some surplus tomatoes from my own garden to my neighbor yesterday and her boys (twin toddlers and one slightly older) weren't as happy as their mother was to receive them.

 

I thought the peas remark was cute. Clearly the comments of a father of near-teenagers.

[orbital sander]

It is probably too late in the season for peas anyway...

 

I was hoping it was a typo and it was give pees a chance...

[Guest Spanky]

With this economy headed back to the 1930s....or worse, the 1830s, I think we will all have to go back to "living off the land". I'm glad I own a small square, and could farm it if I had to.

 

And QE3 is in the works! If Ben keeps trying to print his way out the recession, we're all going to be paying our escorts in peas one day soon.