Forest Park, GA — Children at Little Ones Learning Center are not only excelling at spelling and math but they are doing something amazing and growing their own organic food. What started out as a lesson in gardening has morphed into an amazing enterprise that provides organic vegetables to children and a community. However, because this preschool's enterprise is not in the correct government-approved location, they have been shut down by bureaucrats.

"It was a place for children who were having hard days," Little Ones Executive Director Wande Okunoren-Meadows told the Mother Nature Network. "I know I go stir crazy if I'm sitting indoors for a long period of time. 'You're having a hard time inside? Let's go outside, play in the dirt and find some worms.'"

According to the school, the goal of the gardening program was to influence food preferences for children. However, the preschoolers took it a step further and began providing residents in the surrounding neighborhoods access to organic fruits and vegetables. Last year, they grew so much food they began selling it in a farm stand.

For nearly a year, residents and children alike were able to benefit from the nutritious and locally grown produce. That is, until the city's zoning commission got wind of the criminal enterprise children entrepreneurs who would dare sell a tomato in a residential area.

Last month, Forest Park City Hall forced the children to shut down their farm stand because it wasn't in a commercial zone. Seriously.

Not only has the city brought the children's incredible operation to a screeching halt but they are unapologetically standing by their decision.

"Anywhere you live, you've got to have rules and regulations," Forest Park City Manager Angela Redding said. "Otherwise, you would just have whatever."

As Kerry McDonald eloquently points out:

That "whatever" is exactly the hope and promise that irks central planners. Whatever symbolizes what is possible when individuals and organizations spontaneously create new streams of value for their neighbors. Whatever are opportunities for mutual gain through voluntary exchange. Whatever are new inventions, new services, and new ways of living and being that augment our existence and improve our future. Whatever is freedom.