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Agrihoods take root: a housing trend rooted in agriculture
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Agrihoods-take-root-a-housing-trend-rooted-in-7521122.php"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?" asks the old song. The answer may be: Build them an agrihood.
Feeding off the continuing interest in eating fresh, local food, developers are ditching golf courses and designing communities around farms, offering residents a taste of the pastoral life — and tasty produce, too.
The latest incarnation of harvest homes is The Cannery, a community designed around a small farm in Davis, about 20 miles west of California's capital, Sacramento.
Master developer The New Home Co. was looking to build a neighborhood, not just homes, and market research showed that people wanted to connect to community. So "it made lots of sense to take this 7.5-acre piece of property and turn it into an urban farm, have that be the focus point," says Kevin Carson, New Home president.
Feeding off the continuing interest in eating fresh, local food, developers are ditching golf courses and designing communities around farms, offering residents a taste of the pastoral life — and tasty produce, too.
The latest incarnation of harvest homes is The Cannery, a community designed around a small farm in Davis, about 20 miles west of California's capital, Sacramento.
Master developer The New Home Co. was looking to build a neighborhood, not just homes, and market research showed that people wanted to connect to community. So "it made lots of sense to take this 7.5-acre piece of property and turn it into an urban farm, have that be the focus point," says Kevin Carson, New Home president.
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Off to the Greatest and now off to read the article. Thx for the post 
Growing up I lived on a 12 acre suburban farm. I hated it at first (summer transition from 4th grade into 5 grade), however, I learned to love it.
All the fresh produce, fresh milk and eggs. I have missed it since moving away. The soil there was extremely fertile, I definitely haven't found anywhere else I have lived within the same county.
