How are neighbours reacting to the transformation of the garden?
Does the idea spread throughout the whole area? After it is planted the garden really is taken over by the owners as their project. The plants and layout may change over the years, but I am asking that they commit to keeping it up and growing food in the front yard as long as they are in the house. These prototype gardens need to be placed in very strategic locations, on streets where this would be very unlikely, and be totally different from anything else around. This dense, diverse and bountiful garden that will also attract butterflies, birds and insects would be a vivid contrast to the surrounding homogeneity and monotony of unused front yards. In areas like this I have found that neighbors can be quite shocked at first to see such a radical change on their street. Any change, even the most benevolent kind can be threatening to many people. But once they see it grow and they see the neighbors tending it every day and they even start to enjoy some of the fruits of it themselves (bec
