Confessions of an Outlaw Gardener: When growing vegetables becomes an act of civil disobedience

摘要

Even before I moved into my house, I was making plans to break the rules. It's a fine little house—a 1970s-era split level on a half-acre lot, in a neighborhood filled with other 1970s-era split levels on half-acre lots. It's a nice neighborhood, too. Kids ride bikes in the street. Adults walk dogs and push strollers and pause to chat about the weather. When a winter storm brought a tree down in my driveway, my neighbor brought his chainsaw and helped clear the debris.