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After 6-Year Battle, Florida Couple Wins The Right To Plant Veggies In Front Yard

Laurel Wamsley

A 2013 zoning ordinance threatened Hermine Ricketts with a $50 fine each day for the garden she had tended for years. So she pulled it up — and got a lawyer.

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