The Burlington, Vt., Urban Agriculture Task Force recently completed a comprehensive set of recommendations for urban food production. In it, a home garden is defined as "A garden at a single-family or multifamily residence used for food production by the residents of the property, guests of the property owner, or a gardening business hired by the property owner. Home gardens include the front, side, or back yard, rooftop, courtyard, balcony, windowsills, fence, and walls."
The various city ordinance and planning committees will be acting on the recommendations over the next year. The full report is at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14609070/UrbanAgTaskForceReport.pdf -----Original Message----- From: Community_garden [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tanya Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:18 PM To: Roger Doiron Cc: comfood; ACGA Listserv Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Front yard food production & city codes On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Roger Doiron <[email protected]>wrote: > Does anyone know if there are some big cities that have written front > yard growing into their code and, if so, which ones and what the code says. > We'd like to be able to enlighten the Orlando mayor on best practices. > >> I don't have any info on enlightened codes, but when a similar case was brought up on a different list, someone from Germany said that they're allowed to grow whatever they like in the front yard. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to plant any trees or bushes directly on the border that might shade your neighbor's garden. In the backyard, hedges up to 2 meters are allowed on the sunnier sides, or unlimited height on the north side (where you would not be blocking anyone's sun). That strikes me as a more neighborly approach, and a better code (especially if residential solar starts to be more popular). Tanya Kucak -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communityga rden.org/attachments/20121113/e4046d55/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.commu nitygarden.org _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
