The town of Clarenville is proposing some changes to backyard farming regulations that has at least one resident concerned.
Krista Barfitt, who has eight raised beds, an inground plantation and greenhouse, says the town will only allow residents to grow root vegetables. That, she told VOCM Open Line with Paddy Daly, will severely limit what she, and other backyard farmers, grow.
That means she won’t be able to grow things like peppers, cucumber and pumpkin, like the thousand-plus pound “gourdzilla” that was grown in Clarenville this year.