Gardeners celebrate vote to allow growing food on city boulevards [Video]

Almost three years ago, Andrew Fyfe began a battle to save his verge garden.

He planted daisies, tomatoes and herbs on the narrow strip of land between the sidewalk and the curb of his home in New Edinburgh. But that strip is part of the city-owned right-of-way boulevard, where gardening was forbidden under the Use and Care of Roads Bylaw.

Someone complained, but Fyfe didn’t dig up the plants. Instead, he launched a petition. His councillor, Rawlson King, got on board — and the dispute triggered a massive rethink of the rules.

A council vote legalized the daisies in 2023, but not the tomatoes and herbs, since the initial …