Neighbourhood? Somebody has improved on that name to call it an Agrihood. For those looking for a home in a new housing development with green space focus, there’s a new flavour of the moment: vegetable cocktail.
The thrill of riding around a giant lawn in a fringe-topped battery-powered surrey is wearing off, not helped much by frustratingly wild swipes at a little white ball. In other words, interest in golf is flat or declining.
An innovative golf course replacement for neighbourhood green space? A farm.
And since vegetables do no crow early in morning, bellow for no good reason, or fart methane to stink up the atmosphere and contribute to global warming, it’s dollars to donuts that most urban greenspace farms will be focused on vegetables (and perhaps some of the less rambunctious fruits.)
For the story of one farm-focused neighborhood trying to take wings and fly, read more in the Daily Democrat: Farm-fresh housing in Silicon Valley: Innovative plan to combine housing, farmland nears vote
