Joseph Schiarizzi started his rebellion by planting heirloom tomatoes. With the pandemic raging in spring 2021, his front yard, in a picturesque community just outside Washington, D.C., transformed from a sparse lawn to an explosion of 10 tomato varieties, cucumbers, marigolds, a native mint and jalapeños to make his own hot sauce bursting out of three raised beds. Neighborhood kids helped plant carrots and garlic.
” For Dylan Baddour, his fight against the HOA has become a Texas-sized crusade. Baddour, a journalist with Inside Climate News, tried to restore his yard to native prairie in his new Lockhart, Texas, home. “I always had the dream of owning land and growing a garden,” he says. But first, he had to turn a 6-inch layer of construction fill into rich, loamy soil. “Our subdivision is called the Meadows,” he says. “All streets are named after wildflowers that were removed.