Zoning issues and urban agriculture

The Associated Press reports, in "Urban farmers fight nationwide to sow green biz," on efforts around the country to make more types of urban agriculture legal, as most zoning codes forbid business activity in neighborhoods (like the BDSM parties in Montgomery County that have an admission fee, see "Montgomery County sex-party host must role-play by the zoning rules" from the Washington Post).

Now that I think about it, I know of are a handful of houses with one acre lots a couple blocks from the Takoma Metro, but the backyards are relatively secluded and it would be no problem for them to create "market gardens."

We grow vegetables in our front yard as our backyard is mostly shaded, now in 25 square feet, and we intend to add 75-100 s.f. more this year and Suzanne always wonders if it bothers the neighbors.

-- Square Foot Gardening resources
-- Backyard Poultry Magazine
-- SPIN-Farming and SPIN-Gardening
-- for an article about No Dig Gardening, see "No reason to dig any deeper" from the Los Angeles Times
-- for those of you looking for large cubic feet bags of vermiculite (required in the Square Foot Gardening plan) note that the Agway store in York, Pennsylvania has gone out of business (don't know yet if the store in Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania carries the product I am looking for, ... and that in looking for your five kinds of compost, note that the Takoma-Silver Spring Co-op has (relatively) good prices on mushroom-based compost, at prices far better than Garden District