Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts in their front yard in Miami Shores in 2013. They had to dig up their vegetable garden as they faced code enforcement fines. Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled that Miami Shores has the right under its code to control design and landscaping standards. Miami Herald file photo
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What about pot?
Gardening Ping!..................
I used to live in Miami Shores. These people are non-conformists. Similar to earth-mothers.
Easy solution- just tell the fascist that the produce is being grown to throw at politicians who believe they are dictators
Why would this garden not be grandfathered into compliance.
Yea... Half the problem is their cluttered yard. The other half is they are a mixed race couple. We just can’t have this in our stuck up neighborhood........ That’s why I hate neighborhoods. The associations are always run by busy bodies that think they are important.
Gavones grow vegetables in their front yard.
I can’t believe they didn’t know the rules going in. Their option is to get the ordinance changed. Doubt that’s possible. Personally I don’t want rows if corn or soybeans in my neighbor’s yards either. Neither do I want a jungle of flowers that aren’t taken care of or a lawn that’s not mowed. If I want to do this things I’ll go buy a farm. I bought where I did because I knew the rules when I signed the papers.
They would have more of my sympathy if they didn’t have that big ugly papaya, which tastes like vomit. The irony is it’s legal in the front yard.
I’d plant some nice kudzu.
“That’s what government does – interferes in people’s lives,” Ricketts said. “We had that garden for 17 years. We ate fresh meals every day from that garden. Since the village stepped its big foot in it, they have ruined our garden and my health.”
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Stop whining and buy some hydroponic equipment. It would be a lot cheaper and less stressful than running this all the way up to the Supreme Court and losing.
Yup. I had a neighbor who turned her front yard into a vegetable/fruit garden. Utterly beautiful. Her neighbors on both sides of her hated it and the local council shut it down.
There’s a reason Pa Ingalls in the Little House books keeps moving further west.
“...so the couple said they will take their case to the Florida Supreme Court.”
Personally? I think front yard veggie gardens, unless you are expert at designing and maintaining them, look sloppy to me. I don’t like the look of various pots plopped here and there, or growing stuff in tubs or old stacks of tires, LOL!
That said, I have a Kitchen Garden which is to the West of my farmhouse...and if for SOME reason I was told I couldn’t have it, I’d be packin’ shells on my front porch!
Or if for some UNKNOWN reason, like I went INSANE and lived in a suburb against my will, I might feel differently.
But, even if you have many hundreds of acres around you (as we do) and no neighbors, save for milk cows and buffalo for miles in any direction, Mother Government could easily screw with me too, if she feels like it.
*SPIT*
In Madison Wisconsin I grew a beautiful green pepper in my front yard in my flower garden. It tasted like exhaust. What a disappointment.
Sign your name and buy into HOA, you deserve whatever happens next.
Hooo, boy...what an ugly yard! < /sarc >
But seriesly, you can tell by looking at the loving couple that it is just a racist regime, picking on them!