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Sponsor says right-to-grow bill aims to protect private vegetable gardens; committee pulls bill for revision
Summary
Representative Dan Bodd presented House Bill 1149 to protect personal, noncommercial vegetable gardens; municipal league language and concerns about homeowners’ associations and front-yard gardens prompted senators to pull the bill for further work.
House Bill 1149, presented to the Senate Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development Committee by Representative Dan Bodd, would protect a property owner’s right to cultivate a vegetable garden for personal consumption or noncommercial sharing and limit local governments’ ability to broadly prohibit such gardens.
Bodd said the measure was informed by work on a national agricultural task force and by examples from other states where lawmakers sought to encourage local food production during the pandemic. “What we…
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