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Title: Planting curbside garden was an “act of anarchy,” but it’s turned into a sensation on NextDoor - Waynedale resident takes risk with ‘curbside garden’
Source: WANE TV
URL Source: https://www.wane.com/news/local-new ... -into-a-sensation-on-nextdoor/
Published: Jun 20, 2023
Author: Jamie Duffy
Post Date: 2023-06-20 11:50:24 by Esso
Keywords: None
Views: 450
Comments: 8

Elzey Street resident plants donated peppers and other vegetables, an easement outside her home for anyone to enjoy FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — First, she got all the neighbors on board.

Then, she made an announcement on NextDoor.

By the middle of Monday afternoon, more than 3,600 people gave her a smiley face or a heart emoji. The commenters had nothing but praise and blessings.

“I feel like (I) just committed the highest form of anarchy,” landscaper Crystal Parsons wrote after she and her partner, Steve Plys, planted the curbside easement outside their home with vegetables – peppers, radishes, carrots and peas. “I planted multiple varieties of tomatoes, bell peppers and hot peppers … If you want any of these this summer, please come by and pick as many as you want! Even if the tomatoes are green.”

The Elzey Street resident wrote that by planting in the curbside easement, she knew she was taking a risk, “but it’s worth it!”

The curbside garden is an extension of what’s already been planted in the yard in front of their home, an extension of the couple’s sustainable philosophy.

“We were tired of mowing our grass,” Parsons explained. “We took a sidecutter, took up all the grass and put down some mulch.” With vegetable plants her neighbor gave her, it seemed like a good idea.

“I thought to myself. Why not just plant that?” Parsons said. A lot of people who can’t handle planting – time, patience, that sort of thing, are more than welcome to come by and pick what they want.

“If you look at the stats, people who live in areas with plants and vegetable gardens and the diversity that nature gives us, crime rates go down and people become more successful with the things they put their focus on,” Parsons said. “It’s not as hard as it seems.”

Her eight-year-old daughter, Chloe Gesell, pitches in along with the neighbor boys across the street, Isaac and Joseph Tyree and Andrew Allen-Tyree. Their favorite job right now is picking strawberries from the patch in the front garden.

“I guess we’re making a food forest,” Parsons said. There’s a peach tree that is part of the “micro-climate” where “everything will benefit from each other.”

Parsons is one of those who wants to see the American lawn disappear. Rip it up, she says, and plant microclover, a plant that produces nitrogen that feeds other surrounding plants.

“In the 60s, 70s, lawns really became a thing. Little did we know, it’s horrible for the environment,” she said, including the fossil fuels needed to mow the lawn and the pesticides used to control dandelions and other weeds.

“Global warming is not just about planting trees. We have to create these microclimates and cover the earth with things that are healthy, and you don’t have to fertilize,” she said.She couldn’t find a movement online for planting curbside gardens in city easements, except for a mention in California. Most of the activity appears to be flowers. WANE 15 reached out to a writer for Black Gold who documented a curbside garden in Portland, Oregon that inspired neighbors to do the same, resulting in gardens as varied as nature itself. As of Monday, the website has not responded.

Plys searched on the city website for specific regulations on planting in easements and came away feeling fairly confident that if nothing reached four feet in height, their garden is safe.

An email was sent to a city official for a comment or direction, but to be fair, city offices are closed Monday for Juneteenth. Maybe those city officials are gardening.


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Waynedale is SE FW out by the airport. Sling Blade lives out there.

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#1. To: All (#0) (Edited)

Parsons is one of those who wants to see the American lawn disappear. Rip it up, she says, and plant microclover, a plant that produces nitrogen that feeds other surrounding plants.

I'd be all for not having to cut grass, but I doubt city ordinances would allow that.

I'm not sure what microclover is.

What is Microclover and Why is it Good for My Lawn?

They grow 4-6 inches tall...

The Weed Nazis [NCE] would bust me.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2023-06-20   11:53:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Esso (#0) (Edited)

the tomatoes are green.

One time we picked up four pallets of green tomatoes in south Florida, south of Miami.

We delivered them to AWG in Springfield. They were so green the receiver didn't want them. So we called the shipper. The shipper said, "Just tell them to give them a little more gas."

This is the same gas they use to ripen bananas.

That turns them pink, but they are still hard as a rock. LOL

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2023-06-20   21:08:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Esso (#0)

(I) just committed the highest form of anarchy

They studied the city's ordinances and regulations, and afterwards felt confident that their garden would be safe -- because it wouldn't violate the city's four feet high rule. And they emailed the municipal government asking for a comment or DIRECTION.

That's NOT anarchy.

Don't y'all have dictionaries up there?

StraitGate  posted on  2023-06-21   19:47:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: StraitGate, Esso (#3)

It's FW, cut'em some slack.

“ On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2023-06-21   20:38:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Lod (#4)

“When I use a word… it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” -- Humpty Dumpty, 1871

StraitGate  posted on  2023-06-21   20:50:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: StraitGate (#3)

That's NOT anarchy.

So, you want anarchy?

You got it if you were in Chicago on 4 May 1886. ;)

Haymarket affair. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2023-06-21   20:52:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Esso (#1) (Edited)

They grow 4-6 inches tall...

Farmers were harvesting wheat today on my trip up north for wound treatment. The wheat seemed short, maybe a foot high. But it might have been a genetically engineered crop with shorter stalks.

Percy Schmeisser was a Canadian farmer who saved his seed from year to year. Monsanto got hold of some of his seed and found their GMO signature in the seeds.

There was a big court proceeding over this and it nearly bankrupted the man. How can you control cross pollination? It is impossible to do so. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2023-06-21   21:00:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: StraitGate, Lod, 4um (#3) (Edited)

Don't y'all have dictionaries up there?

It's FW, cut'em some slack.

Waynedale is a strange, insular place. It's kind of like the North Korea of FW.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2023-06-22   11:04:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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