By Elizabeth Renter | Natural Society You own your home and the
lot that it sits on. So, if you want to plant tomatoes instead
of bushes, you should be entitled to that, right? While this may
seem like a common sense line of reasoning, many cities and
towns across our nation think otherwise. They don’t want their
citizens using a front-yard garden to grow food – they want
perfectly green and manicured lawns. Using a Front-Yard Garden
to Grow Veges? You May Not be Allowed It seems like every month
a few more stories hit the social media grapevines, where home
owners are being punished for growing food. Some of these front-
yard gardeners have created landscapes that rival those created
by high-paid landscaping companies. The difference—all of this
greenery is edible. Whether it’s the HOA rules or a city
ordinance, some front-yard gardeners are being forced to pull up
their plants and scrap their edible landscape. Why? If for
nothing more than to have a seamless line of green yards
stretching through the neighbo