Grampa Fined For Growing Too Many Vegetables Videos

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February 7, 2016 (Added)
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County fines Grampa For Growing Too Many Vegetables

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Rocky

My initial reaction is 'ridiculous', but I DID look at the video and the dude had 2 acres which was over the code for the area.

Personally, I don't believe anyone has the right to tell me how to use my property in respect of how tall my grass is, if I want to grow veggies in my front yard etc. But ...

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Cezar Scribe

On his own property. Not constitutional.

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Rocky

True. But aren't there several things going on here. Communities are allowed to make codes. Most of them we like; for instance, I don't want my neighbor to open a gravel pit next door.

Both of my grandsons live in one of communities where you have to get permission to put up a fence etc. I dis...

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Cezar Scribe

Well a garden isn't going to hurt the neighbors.

I'm going to try to start one this year. How many did he grow? I want to double it.

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Rocky

2 acres, he grows. I'm actually having one this year too but it will only be what we ourselves can eat. I would feed the family but they live too far away and I'd be giving them rot by the time it got to them.

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Cezar Scribe

Miller had his 2-acre property rezoned so that he could have his garden.

Steve Miller had been growing a variety of vegetables for 15 years, and his neighbors support him. He sells what he grows at local markets and gives some away, he said.

Sadly, as in this case, archaic city zoning laws often run c...