(Anti Media) A Florida couple recently lost yet another battle with their local government in their efforts to protect their right to grow vegetables in their front yard.

Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll grew vegetables in their front yard for seventeen years, mostly because their backyard did not receive enough sunlight to sustain their garden. But in May of 2013, the local government of Miami Shores passed an ordinance banning the practice.

Though the ordinance allowed fruit, trees, and garden gnomes and flamingos to remain in front yards, vegetable gardens were outlawed. Property owners were permitted to grow them elsewhere on their property, but the ordinance asserted its right to declare vegetable gardens in the front yard unsightly. The city council claimed it was “protecting the distinctive character of Miami Shores Village.”

Within days, code enforcers came to their property, issued a citation, and threatened to fine…