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Homeowners apparently will be forced to pay the city to rip up their front yards and install sidewalks under a proposal in Grand Forks, N.D. “Sidewalks aren’t protestable,” City Council President Dana Sande told The Grand Forks Herald. “So once ...

  MIAMI – In a blow to freedom and property rights, a Florida judge has ruled that residents of Miami Shores do not have a fundamental right to grow vegetables in their front yard, even if they don’t have a ...

A judge will hear a case this month to determine if a Florida couple can grow vegetables in their own yard. Hermine Ricketts and Tom Carroll are the couple who had to rip out a garden they had grown for ...

A Missouri family has been ordered to destroy its vegetable garden or face fines, simply because it is within 30 feet of a street. The new ordinance in Sugar Creek, Missouri, appears to be aimed at only one family. “Them ...

Those who believe in self-sufficiency have won a major victory in Orlando, where the city council voted to allow residents to plant vegetable gardens in their front yards. The council has given preliminary approval to an ordinance that will strike ...

A city government in Florida has used a zoning ordinance to force a couple to remove their organic vegetable garden – one that they’ve had for 17 years. Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll had to tear out the ...