Zappia turned the front yard of the home he and his wife rent in Santa Monica, Calif., into a vegetable garden, with his landlord's permission. He estimates it supplies 35 to 40 percent of the food ...

On the back of Susan Eisendrath's little SUV, a bumper sticker reads: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” You need only go a few feet — to her curbside front yard — to see Gandhi's aphorism ...

My husband, who is not known for his sense of adventure, balked. What would people think? Cornstalks and watermelon vines in the front yard aren’t exactly de rigueur in our new neighborhood. I’m no ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CNS) – Legislation that would prevent local governments from banning its citizens from growing vegetable gardens in their front yards has cleared its final Senate committee. Senate ...

Driving into Oakdale’s Artists Colony neighborhood feels like stepping back in time. At its entrance, arched underpasses and the brick Clock Tower surprise with old-world charm; homes with names like ...

TWO RIVERS – Two Rivers residents will have a chance to voice their opinions about allowing front-yard vegetable gardens on a permanent basis during a public hearing Nov. 4. Residents have been ...

Front-yard vegetable and herb gardens aren't allowed in Falcon Heights anymore. The city adopted a temporary resolution, signed on May 13. "I just grow food in my own yard," said Quentin Nguyen, who ...

April Zubko in her front-yard vegetable garden in Huntington. Credit: ReSprout/April Zubko On busy Park Avenue in Huntington, daily drivers “have nothing to look at but me bent over in the garden,” ...

A Miami-area couple whose front-yard vegetable garden prompted a six-year legal battle with their village have held a ceremonial replanting of veggies under a new Florida law legalizing such gardens ...

In tropical South Florida, it's growing season. Temperatures are in the 80s, there's lots of sun and good rain, and normally, Hermine Ricketts' plants would already be in the ground. "By now, this ...