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Locavore Kids Fight City Hall

Nevit Dilmen at Wikimedia Commons under a GNU Free Documentation license.)Two young girls in California are fighting for their right to operate not a frontyard lemonade stand, but a produce stand selling fruits and vegetables from their family’s garden.

What’s wrong with kids making a few bucks by hawking locally grown tomatoes, melons and zucchini on a Saturday morning? It  — gasp — violates zoning laws and public safety, according to Gregg Manning, mayor of the East Bay area town of Clayton.

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