McMansions in Background

This is what anarchy looks like

Give it three weeks of good sun and enough rain, and all those plants will be very happy, twice the size, and unruly as it comes. Much more “anarchy” than these neat rows.

Where's the sidewalk?

This looks like an inexpensive hobby where labor cost is not factored in when you gift your neighbors extra food instead of preserving it. The neighbors might love you, but this is not really sustainable if you don't get anything in return.

In the bottom right?

Anarchy =/= chaos.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-what-is-communist-anarchism#toc2

I didn’t mean to upset the very serious anarchist.l in the meme comm.

This is your brain on capitalism...

Just remember that most microplastics come from tires so you kinda don’t want to have food you eat growing right next to the road

Such a rotten mindset. "Neighbors might love you" but "you don't get anything in return".

Love is not nothing man! Even if you can't quantify it into moneys.

Walk up the driveway, than under the wooden pergola at a 90 degree angle, than it turns to the house.

Driveways are parts of sidewalks, don’t need a seperate one if the driveway is wide enough to walk past the cars.

It's all fun until you end up doing all the work and people come trample it trying to get food. Maybe that's just a California problem...

Food preservation is a lot of work, better to spread it on many shoulders. Usually what happens is that the neighbours return some glasses of jam etc. as a thank you.

Yeah... Why would I want to share a few bottles of plum mead I made with friends, nothing in return!

Much better to sit inside on your own without any friends and never speaking to anyone. Makes it easier to blame minorities for all of the problems in society too.

I would probably turn it into alcohol

Except the blame minorities part, I don't mind the sit inside on my own bit, as a hermit by nature. I'd still grow stuff to share with the community as much as I'm able though. Just because I don't want to interact with people face to face doesn't mean I don't care that they are fed

i wish. neighbor down road has a garden like that.

and trump flags in his yard.

They mean like this:

But, a lot of neighborhoods don't have them:

I specifically bought in a neighborhood with sidewalks, because kids. But, as GenX I didn't anticipate that GenZ would be the first generation that didn't play outside all summer like we used to.

Are they absorbed into the plants? Or just wash off?

When I help people, I get something out of that. I feel GOOD. Try it. It works.

Didn’t even know that was a thing, where I live one side still requires a sidewalk.

anarchism never required not hating your neighbor

Doomers have to comment on every nice thing

I enjoy that immensely myself when gardening. I'm just not suggesting this as a generalizable way to feed (or organize) society which the word anarchism suggests.

We'll need an after picture too, I assume they're going to replace that concrete tightrope with one?

Indeed. I'm just criticizing OP suggesting this might be a way to structure society in general. I'm a fan of anarchism, but like many idealized political systems it doesn't work as advertised. Same for communism and capitalism. That's why sensible nations have long chosen social capitalism.

The deer density throughout much of America would make that impossible without some serious fencing.

My city only requires sidewalks depending on how much vehicular traffic, how much foot traffic, and if kids are expected to navigate that street to get to school. And even then "one side" doesn't mean "same side." My house and the one next to my neighbor have the unfortunate yards missing sidewalks, meaning people have to use my next-for neighbor's sidewalk, cross the street, use my neighbor's sidewalk, and then can continue down until they have to cross the street again because the sidewalk is unusable at a certain point.

The reasons we have missing and broken sidewalks are that:

1. The city won't help pay for them
2. The city has strict regulations on how they're installed
3. The 50-foot run of sidewalk would cost more than a car to install, and since they're often seen as insurance liabilities, it's practically impossible to get a reasonable loan to cover the up-front costs.

"My yard is the shitty impediment because I can't afford to fund a public service" is not one of the sad realities of home ownership that I expected to encounter.

Depends, but most will wash off.

Yeah that's a no-go. The lawn extension must be kept less than 12" tall under city ordinance, and you need a license if you're going to sell or give away those vegetables...

My understanding is that they get into the soil and can then get into the plants. Then into your body.

Somewhere between 9 and 28%, depending on the source. Far from "most", but I learned something new today

Could make everything within ~3ft of the road non-edible natives, either companion plants for the food or native cultivars to help pollinators (which in turn, will help the edibles closer to the house). So there's still a way to make this work!

That is unless you make a post on Facebook stating you revoke their permission to get into your body

you need a license if you're going to sell or give away those vegetables

Wait what?

Does come with a cost?

This drives me nuts, I know sidewalks are an extra cost. But I'd happily pay a portion to get some put in around us.

I don't live in an HOA, but I swear all the surrounding neighborhoods just don't want them to keep the "riff raff" out. Still I ride bikes with my kid in the mega HOA neighborhood across the street, a lot flatter. Have to ride in the storm gutter if a car comes by.

They are building another mega HOA housing development next to the current one, houses at double the price. They certainly won't have sidewalks because it's targeting 60+. No restricted by age, but by money. They'll probably put a gate on it too.

yeah tbf i would not wanna eat anything that close to sidewalk anyway. dogs pee and poop there

It's not stealing if it's free

but anarchy is the freedom to break out of neat prescribed rows if they don't fit us

It's going to vary a lot depending on the road, specifically traffic volume and speed. Or, a four way stop where loads of drivers slam their brakes right in front of your property would probably also be pretty detrimental. For a quiet neighborhood street it would be paranoid worrying about micro plastic in your cucumbers imo.

Respond to the wrong comment?

Go start a conversation

bigotry against marginalized normadic people is not exactly very solarpunk

i suggest building solidarity instead

Gotcha, garden in sleepy neighborhood, good. Garden on pit road at Talledega, bad.

I don't know anything about biology but that's not how I imagined that would work.

The amount from traffic one residential street would be infinitesimal I imagine.

The city has strict regulations on how they're installed

Could you install a very narrow terrace at the front of your yard?