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— As of today, Florida property owners can grow fresh produce in their yards without fear of local government restrictions. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 82 last week, which prohibits local governments from banning vegetable gardens on any part of a residential property. The law takes effect today, July 1.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As of today, Florida property owners can grow fresh produce in their yards without fear of local government restrictions. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 82 last week, which prohibits local governments from banning vegetable gardens on any part of a residential property. The law takes effect today, July 1. The issue sprung up after a couple in Miami Shores Village unsuccessfully contested in Florida courts a $50-a-day fine for their long-time front-yard vegetable garden. Kitty Wallace, co-founder of the Coalition of Community Gardens of Tampa Bay, said she supports the idea of encouraging planting more fruits and vegetables, but worries it could backfire by taking power away from local communities. "Because I grow all my own vegetables in my garden, I'm supportive of this legislation,” Wallace said. “But I have mixed feelings." The Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Miami Shores' right to control design and landscaping standards, and the couple replaced their vegetables with pink flamingos. But Republican Sen. Rob Bradley called the village's action a "vast overreach," and sponsored the bill, which effectively voids the court rulings. Wallace said she was expecting citizens of Miami Shores would simply make note of the unusual restriction by their local government, and vote them out later. "You know, vote out those people and vote in new people that were going to change the ordinance,” she said. “But it just rose to the state level really quickly. Sometimes, these types of laws take many legislative sessions to make it in and out of committee and to the governor's desk, but this thing — zip, zip, zip!" According to the National Gardening Association, about a third of all U.S. households grow at least some of their own food. The group said a 600-square-foot garden that costs around $70 a year to cultivate can grow 300 pounds of fresh produce worth about $600 annually.
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Read More »Six stretches of Oregon coast that are home to a diverse array of wildlife are set to receive critical protections. Oregon's Ocean Policy Advisory Council approved new rocky habitat designations for the areas, including Chapman Point and Ecola Point, both of which are north of Cannon Beach. Jesse Jones, CoastWatch volunteer coordinator for the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, said the areas have seen increased visitation, which puts the fragile but vibrant landscape at risk. Jones says Chapman Point, for example, has large boulders teeming with life. "Numerous black oystercatcher nests and is a resting place for harbor seal pups and adults and has truly incredible rocky habitat, intertidal diversity, including numerous marine invertebrates, plants," Jones said. Chapman Point is set for designation as a Marine Education Area and Ecola Point, which is just to the north of Chapman Point, is scheduled to become a Marine Conservation Area. The areas contain tide pools and are home to nesting habitat for some of the world's most threatened birds. Jones said the beauty of the process to protect these regions is that it has been community driven. "The proposals were made and initiated by members of these communities in which these sites are in, and these community members worked very hard to study these sites and get these proposals in," she said. The decision now goes to the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission, which is expected to approve the new designations. Along with the other four, the new protections are part of an update to the state's Rocky Shores Management Strategy, which hasn't been changed since 1994.
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