Saved! A Front Yard Vegetable Garden in Quebec

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Kitchen Gardeners International took up the couple's cause with a petition that received thousands of signatures and made an appropriately big impression on the local city council. Change is coming. Landry and Beauchamp were allowed to keep their garden, and, with their help (and KGI's), local laws restricting front-yard gardens are being rewritten.

"A vegetable garden is not part of the problem, it's part of the solution," Landry says, sharing the philosophy of KGI. In the world today, "we face so many different problems: environmental, social, economic. For us, agriculture is a small gesture that — if it is followed by a lot of people — it can change the way we live."