They do here in Ohio too. And we have like fifty of them here in central ohio. Enough that you could go to a different one every night of the week if you wanted to.
What I wish cities would encourage is community gardens. It’s amazing how learning that skill helps people think they can learn other skills too. And teamwork, and nutrition… it’s such a great thing, I just don’t understand why larger cities don’t buy up more of these abandoned or vacant properties and convert them. Heck, then make them a community farmer’s market as well. I would even pay a little more in taxes to help provide this opportunity. It’s only positives as far as I can see…
Yes. But I know of two community gardens where the organizers decided that growing herbs and vegetables made the garden attractive to vermin and theft, so nobody was allowed to plant them.
Because there’s a huge market for black market broccoli?? Sounds more like they didn’t want to really be in charge of anything. Part of learning to garden is learning to manage vermin, build raised beds, etc…
Never underestimate the power of stupidity, narcissism, and arrogance, One of those alone is enough, when you get all three together, it’s a perfect storm of fucked up.
I have, and that’s one of the reasons I garden… We probably get 1000# of produce from the gardens each year, and I have less than 300 sq ft. Think of what could be produced with an entire neighborhood pitching in to cultivate a city lot!!
A lot of supposedly green cities keep ending up in the news for doing things like digging up front yard gardens, empty lots, and fining people who sell their own produce. There are even places that don’t allow gardens in the back yard over a certain size.
I think this article is looking for boogiemen where there might not be any. Or at least looking at the wrong boogiemen, I believe it’s the “We know what’s best for you” arm of the government that’s doing this sort of thing.
A couple of the cases mentioned here sound like they’d be a real pain to live next door to, but the way the government just waltzes in and bulldozes the garden before court dates is typical of what I’ve read.
I love it when I’m on the same side of an issue as the hippies, it’s fun.
However, with booming big agriculture business comes the need for
monetary and job security, which means that threatening the productivity
of big agriculture will not be tolerated.
Can’t be taking money out of the hands of big business. They need it to buy politicians after all.
I don’t think so. Big business is making tons of money out of the organic and local food movement. There are five new grocery store chains in Indianapolis in the last few years capitalizing on this.
Every one of these fads, and really the localvore movement is a fad, it’s just not possible to feed everyone with local food 12 months a year, is making the big food companies mass amounts of money. Especially when they can take an item and change nothing about it but the label, and the subsidiary selling it, and charge 50% more for it.
Not that agribusiness isn’t a huge lobby, but I don’t think this is a movement they want to stop. Everyone loves the farmer’s market, but when it’s not every other Thursday afternoon they are going to go to Trader Joes, or Market Thyme, or Fresh Market, or wherever.
I’ve decided, here at Really Horrible Enterprises, to add this new idea I came up with to my seasonal lineup: Artisanal Snow Cakes
I had a really good crop this year and they come in a few different varieties.
Plain - these are the snow cakes you remember from your childhood. Big, soft, fluffy. Nothing beats a good, old-fashioned snow cake.
Salted - with the assistance of the City of Ottawa, I am able to bring these to you in greater quantities than I though possible. Big, fat salt crystals adorn each snow cake and enhance this joyous treat.
I get the snow carted in by teams of Manitoba Ridgeback Beavers, and it is processed in a smoke-free, peanut-free, gluten-full environment.
… and don’t get on my tits about outsourcing the heavy lifting to out of province workers. The Manitoba Ridgeback breed is much hardier than the Ontario Sealpoint or Quebec Lardons Beavers that I have easy access to around here.
It reads as if they were cited for public nuisance, especially promoting vermin. That is a biggie in cities - we had a case here in Cbus where a couple had a yard with so much vegetation it was actually turning into a sanctuary for rats. It was unkempt and sprawling, and was truly impinging on the neighborhood, setting up a scenario for the spread of diseases and pests.
Responsible urban gardeners and farmers most likely have nothing to worry about, but it is always best to read up on the rules in your subdivision, township, city, county, and state (yes, they can all be different and enforceable!) and if you feel strongly about something attend meetings! Know your rights, but respect your neighbors.
You forgot homeowners’ association. There was a woman a few years back that was forced to remove her entire herb garden, because the neighbors didn’t like the way it looked.
It was a stupid statement. These guys have been around enough to know that they could have easily done what they said they are going to do without saying a word.
We’re supposed to be the evil party, not the stupid.
They don’t say anything about the nature of the refugees. Seems odd that they would say they were checking them to make sure they weren’t all young men, and then not say that they weren’t all young men.
I have no problem with people protesting refugees. Immigration of any type is a legitimate concern. The people complaining about this don’t seem to have a problem protesting any number of other things, why is this a big deal? Hell, PETA pours red paint on people.
I wouldn’t do it, but it doesn’t seem like anyone wants to talk about it unless people do this. Just because someone is being a dick to my neighbor that doesn’t mean I let them move into my basement.