Green Acres II: When Neighbors Become Farmers

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 22, 2008 | Kelly K Spors

[Califreak]

More power to him!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

He must not have any teenagers living in his neighborhood!

[Califreak]

They don’t eat veggies. They eat pizza and cheeseburgers.

[mtbopfuyn]

They act like this is something new.

[bpjam]

this is EXACTLY what Homeowners Associations are for. Like them or not, they prevent the idiot next store to you from planting corn because he can get $6 a bushel or Kale because the local restaurant has vegan salads on the menu.

There is a reason that there are so many HOAs starting in new communities around the country. Not all of your neighbors can be trusted to keep your neighborhood a ‘residential’ community.

[Tax-chick]

It seems like this would affect one’s resale prospects. I can just see the big-haired, high-heeled realtor marching the prospects past the freshly-manured garden.

[Califreak]

[dialup]

“a freshly dug manure patch out front.”
Growing manure, why didn’t I think of that ?

[BGHater]

Property rights, gotta love them. More power to him.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

They don’t care what they eat. They think it’s macho to destroy a neighbor’s garden. Happened to me last summer. By the kids I actually hired to do lawn work for me. The one little jerk actually made between 6 and 7 hundred bucks workin’ for me. Then he cheated me while snowplowing. I told him to “Go home. I don’t need you anymore.” He then screamed that he’d be back, and would get even! Someone tagged the trees in my front yard last night. I have an idea who did it. But no proof. This is in a nice neighborhood of 250,000 dollar houses, with a very good school system. Kid is 14. We’re in for a lot of trouble with this generation!

[hoosierham]

So you think that not only should you control your property but also your neighbors' property?

My,aren't we fine little snobs and dictators.

You want to control the land?Buy it!

[Califreak]

Oh, sorry. I was hoping it wasn’t anything like that.

[Lorianne]

Exactly why some people chose NOT to buy a home in a HOA neighborhood.

To each his own.

[Steely Tom]

Who is the lady in front of Mr. Hainey?

[Nervous Tick]

>> They don’t eat veggies. They eat pizza and cheeseburgers.

Uh... Hello!? CHEESE IS a vegetable.

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isn’t it?

if it’s not it ought to be. It’s yellow, like carrots, must be loaded with beta carrot-ene...

[kalee]

Oh just like my favorite britcom!
The Good Life...Tom and Barbara Good’s dream is to live completely self-sufficiently. This means, among other things, raising their own vegetables and animals for food. Trouble is, they live in the suburbs. Their very conservative neighbors, the Leadbetters, look on, horrified, at this bold experiment.

[kalee]

Oliver’s mother Eunice Douglas

[Steely Tom]

Oliver’s mother Eunice Douglas

I have absolutely no memory of her. I must have outgrown the show before she became a regular.

[ApplegateRanch]

Take those damned water-wasting, gas-guzzling, crimalien attracting, Weed-N-Feed eating, allergy exacerbating lawns, and stuff them.

Grass belongs in a pasture or meadow.