The fact that so many people are up in arms about a Michigan woman facing jail time for planting a garden in her front yard …
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Gardening Pro: It’s Wise to Start Small, on the Cheap
Growing vegetables in your own backyard can be enormously rewarding, with payoffs including delicious super-fresh foods and a decreased grocery bill. To get started the right way, take the advice of an expert who considers costs at every turn.
Meet the ‘Guru of Edible Landscaping’
No matter how neatly manicured, vibrantly green, and classically attractive your lawn is, you’re probably not going to eat the grass. But who said gardens had to relegated to the backyard anyway? In lieu of a Wimbledon-like lawn, your front yard could yield a rich mix of figs, peppers, blackberries, radishes, and even basil plants …
Entrepreneurial Teenagers, Then and Now
Facing an awful economy in which jobs are scarce (especially for teenagers), one 17-year-old high school student from Miami started a business, handed out hundreds of fliers, and offered his services doing all sorts of chores—mowing lawns, yanking weeds, moving furniture, mulching, and so on. He now has two dozen clients, and largely …
Backyard Gardening: It’s Not About Saving Money
Well, it’s not about saving money for some people, anyway—like the folks who pay $2,000 for someone else to build raised beds in their yard, and drop another $20 a pop for someone to come and yank weeds and collect the harvest.
