Posted on 04/22/2008 3:54:04 PM PDT by Lorianne
BOULDER, Colo. -- When suburbanites look out their front doors, a lot of them want to see a lush green lawn. Kipp Nash wants to see vegetables, and not all of his neighbors are thrilled.
"I'd rather see green grass" than brown dirt patches, says 82-year-old Florence Tatum, who lives in Mr. Nash's Boulder neighborhood, across the street from a house with a freshly dug manure patch out front. "But those days are slipping away."
work.
A school-bus driver, Mr. Nash rises at 5 a.m. and, after returning from his morning route, spends his days planting, watering and tending his yard farms and the seedlings he stores in a greenhouse behind his house.
Farmers don't necessarily live in the country anymore. They might just be your next-door neighbor, hoping to turn a dollar satisfying the blooming demand for organic, locally grown foods.
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Kelly Spors on opportunities down on the yard farm. Read the latest post and share your thoughts.Unlike traditional home gardeners who devote a corner of the yard to a few rows of vegetables, a new crop of minifarmers is tearing up the whole yard and planting foods such as arugula and kohlrabi that restaurants might want to buy. The locally grown food movement has also created a new market for front-yard farmers.
"Agriculture is becoming more and more suburban," says Roxanne Christensen, publisher of Spin-Farming LLC, a Philadelphia company started in 2005 that sells guides and holds seminars teaching a small-scale farming technique that involves selecting high-profit vegetables like kale, carrots and tomatoes to grow, and then quickly replacing crops to reap the most from plots smaller than an acre. "Land is very expensive in the country, so people are saying, 'why not just start growing in the backyard?' "
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More power to him!
He must not have any teenagers living in his neighborhood!
They don’t eat veggies. They eat pizza and cheeseburgers.
They act like this is something new.
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.
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.
“a freshly dug manure patch out front.”
Growing manure, why didn’t I think of that ?
Property rights, gotta love them. More power to him.
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!
My,aren't we fine little snobs and dictators.
You want to control the land?Buy it!
Oh, sorry. I was hoping it wasn’t anything like that.
Exactly why some people chose NOT to buy a home in a HOA neighborhood.
To each his own.
Who is the lady in front of Mr. Hainey?
>> 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...
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.
Oliver’s mother Eunice Douglas
I have absolutely no memory of her. I must have outgrown the show before she became a regular.
Grass belongs in a pasture or meadow.
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