A Kansas gardener is suing for the right to sell honey and fruit from her Ottawa yard

Ellen Finnerty revels in working her backyard garden as much to learn the science as to harvest a juicy watermelon…. Now the Ottawa resident wants to keep bees, too, and ultimately sell her honey, fruits and vegetables at a local farmer’s market. But the city of Ottawa halted her aspirations last year, citing city code. Finnerty holds out hope. With help from a small-government advocacy group, the gardener sued in May, arguing those rules violate the Kansas Constitution. Some cities across the country are changing their codes to allow residents to grow more food or add bees and chickens to their yards. Lawrence, for example, changed its codes in 2016 to loosen rules for residential crops and allow beekeeping and sales of honey and other homegrown foods. In 2019, the state of Indiana struck down all municipal beekeeping bans.
Source: KCUR News