into the land of front yard gardens once again!
i will be checking in with karl in missouri for an update on his fight to keep his front yard garden intact. what i know now is that he is still being harassed by city employees as his court date approaches, in spite of the fact that they have been told to leave him alone. standing your ground to fight quite lierally for your ground is no easy thing!
in tulsa, oklahoma, denise morrison is suing her city for civil rights violations after they actually bulldozed her entire front yard garden before she even had her day in court. i have left messages for the reporter who covered her story, and am hoping to hear from her soon so i can let you know what’s going on and how we can help.
but, in a long tradition of things getting stranger and stranger, here is perhaps the most beautiful front yard garden i’ve seen in a long time. (thanks to blog reader pixilated for bringing this to my attention!) seriously, this could be on the front of a magazine. i almost drooled when i clicked on the link. i WISH i could make my garden look like this 
but here it is, folks- another garden that needs our backing:
Thank goodness the authorities have busted these hardened front-yard garden criminals
By Mark Frauenfelder at 2:11 pm Wednesday, Jul 18
High-tech kitchen garden evangelist Roger Doironsays: “If this garden is deemed illegal, we’re in deep you-know-what.”
Earlier this year, Josée Landry and Michel Beauchamp of Drummondville, Quebec planted the front yard of the future: a gorgeous and meticulously-maintained edible landscape full of healthy fruits and vegetables. Now they’re being ordered by town officials to remove most of their gardens (town code states that a vegetable garden can’t occupy more than 30% of the area of a front yard) in the next two weeks to make their yard conform with newly harmonized town code. Front yard kitchen gardens are not the problem; they’re part of the solution to healthier and more sustainable communities.
Jul 19, 2012 @ 14:48:22
It looks more like this now – and STILL gorgeous! I, too, am jealous! This is the garden of my dreams.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/07/18/drummondville-vegetable-garden-fight.html
Jul 19, 2012 @ 15:16:30
It is too beautiful!!!
Jul 19, 2012 @ 15:52:08
Unfortunately one must have a Facebook account to sigh the petition.
When will this Facebook madness end?
Jul 19, 2012 @ 16:49:11
Susan, Hm, they want 30% lawn? OK then, take measurements of everything out front, and subtract the square footage of the foot paths. Foot paths = 30%? (If not, remove one planter and add that as lawn too, could even put in a small bench and table to rest and enjoy the view there in the middle too.) Then rip up the stone paths, and plant lawn paths. Now they’ll need to purchase a small lawnmower to keep them trimmed, but hey it’s 30%
~ Lynda
Jul 19, 2012 @ 17:47:44
i know- i ran into the same problem. but i figure that lots of people on the blog have facebook, so i least i could post it here for them…
Jul 19, 2012 @ 17:47:56