Green Options » locally grown vegetables http://greenoptions.com/tag/locally-grown-vegetables Posts tagged 'locally grown vegetables' Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:17:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Locavore Kids Fight City Hall http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/22/locavore-kids-fight-city-hall/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/22/locavore-kids-fight-city-hall/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:17:34 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/22/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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