With summer now upon us, gardening season is in
full swing. And as Baylen Linnekin explains, that can only mean
it’s time for local government officials around the country to try
to outdo one another when it comes to preventing everyday people
from growing fruit and vegetables in their own yards.

If the proposition that squads of busybody, anti-gardening
bureaucrats are waiting in your thicket, ready to pounce on the
pecks of peppers you might have tended in your yard sounds like
hyperbole, then you clearly have not been paying attention to the
news. In years.