Brief Notes on Building Regulation, Working on a Farm, Improvised Insulation, and Planting Avocado Pits

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ILLUSTRATION: KIM ZARNEY
Building codes prevent you from building a house any old way you want to, but when planting avocados you just have to get the pit to sprout.

I noticed that in his letter to MOTHER EARTH NEWS, Chuck Boothby raised the question of “intrusions” by
building inspectors but didn’t seem to realize why the
regulations he resents were put into effect originally.

  • Published on May 1, 1973
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