{"id":11829,"date":"2011-07-16T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=11829"},"modified":"2013-11-27T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:26:40","slug":"charges-dropped-against-oak-park-woman-over-vegetable-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/charges-dropped-against-oak-park-woman-over-vegetable-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against Oak Park woman over vegetable garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oak Park Vegetable Garden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Oak-Park-Vegetable-Garden.jpg\" title=\"Oak Park Vegetable Garden\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"418\" height=\"289\" \/><em>Oak Park<\/em>\u2014 The old adage says you can&#8217;t fight city hall. But the case against the woman who planted a vegetable garden in her front yard suggests maybe you can.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Charges against Julie Bass over her garden have been dropped, but other charges remain for failing to license her two dogs, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>City Prosecutor Eugene Lumberg said he dropped the misdemeanor citation against Bass for growing cucumbers, tomatoes and other vegetables in raised beds in her front yard.<\/p>\n<p>The situation garnered Bass an army of international supporters after she began writing about it on a blog and a friend put up a Facebook page, &#8220;Oak Park Hates Veggies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to look at it, I want to see the facts, I want to see where this vegetable garden is going and make a determination of whether or not to prosecute under the existing ordinance, write a new ordinance and (examine) the public welfare,&#8221; Lumberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if that meant this case could be resurrected, Lumberg said he couldn&#8217;t predict what would happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She may decide to grow a cornfield,&#8221; Lumberg said. &#8220;If she plows up a compost heap, what are (we) going to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Bass&#8217; attorney, Solomon Radner, suspects the charge for the vegetable garden was dropped because Oak Park wants to get out of the international spotlight. Last week, Bass&#8217; plight went viral, and city officials acknowledged they were barraged with emails and even threatening phone calls as the suburban mother and gardener faced a $100 fine and up to 93 days in jail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Charges are dropped for the time being,&#8221; Radner said. &#8220;Based on the games the city has been playing, I would not put it past them to drop the charges just to get the media off their back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read Full Article From The Detroit News: http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20110715\/METRO02\/107150397\/Charges-dropped-against-Oak-Park-woman-over-veggie-garden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oak Park\u2014 The old adage says you can&#8217;t fight city hall. But the case against the woman who planted a vegetable garden in her front yard suggests maybe you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-self-reliance"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}