It is now legal to grow your own food anywhere in
your yard within the City of Orlando. We all managed to change our little
part of the world for the better. Congratulations everyone. We did
it.
Never mind the convoluted code writing, it would be very
difficult for anyone to ever get a “vegetable” code violation again. Our
front yard garden is completely legal as is.
Thank you ALL. Special thanks to Kitchen
Gardeners International, Institute for Justice, MotherEarth News, TreeHugger, Coalition for Property Rights, Campaign for Liberty, Food Not Bombs, Food Not Lawns, Orlando Center for Urban
Permaculture, Front Porch Radio, FloridaSurvivalGardening.com, all of the media, and so many more.
We also told the City of Orlando that we expect more than
just accepting edible gardens out of a self-proclaimed sustainable
leader. We hope to see the new Food Security programs and campaigns that
we suggested by the time the new ordinance goes into effect in March 2014, all
of which cost the city little to no money. The world is watching to see
if the City of Orlando is really a sustainable leader. Be sure and let
them know what you expect by keeping the pressure on.
We’d also like to take this opportunity to inform you of
an undertaking one of our partners have just started ―the Institute for Justice’s Food Freedom
Initiative. IJ seeks
to improve state laws for food producers, consumers and entrepreneurs across
the country. One of their first cases has our fellow Floridians in Miami Shores going
through a similar battle for their front yard vegetable garden—they could
certainly use your support!
The Patriot Garden campaign (including 6000+ petition) is
still available to anyone who needs it—we’re not the only ones who have had to
protect a front yard garden from the government. We hope to continue the
movement. Most importantly, we will continue to help others grow their
own food. Please feel free to contact us for help.
Keep those Patriot Garden signs up and keep distributing
the petitions for all the others. We have only just begun. Thank you
again. Namaste, Jason and Jennifer Helvenston
Source:http://patriot-gardens.com/
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