Hermine Ricketts and Tom Carroll have gardened in their front yard for 17 years. Their back yard doesn't receive enough sunlight. But recently, their community in Miami Shores decided to make such front yard gardens off-limits. That new rule was enacted in May and the couple had until August to remove their vegetables or face fines. Other towns threaten with jail time for growing produce in the front yard.
While Real Farmacy reports the couple dug up the garden after appearing twice in front of the Code Enforcement Board and facing $50 each day the garden remained, there are also reports that they have filed a lawsuit targeted at overturning the zoning regulation that made their garden a battleground.
With the help of the Institute of Justice's National Food Freedom Initiative, the couple is arguing that the ordinance violates the states Constitution by stopping them from exercising their right to "acquire, possess, and protect" their property.
Their prospects don't look good, however, in light of a similar legal battle in which Florida's state courts upheld a zoning regulation in Coral Gables that banned homeowners from parking pickups in their driveways, an asinine law that was eventually overturned."The right to grow and harvest your own food on your very own property is certainly part of that right to acquire, possess, and protect property," said Ari Bargill, attorney for the Institute.
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