December 17, 2013 - When you picture a housing development in the suburbs, you might imagine golf courses, swimming pools, rows of identical houses.But now, there's a new model springing up across the country that taps into the local food movement: Farms — complete with livestock, vegetables and fruit trees — are serving as the latest suburban amenity.
It's called development-supported agriculture, a more intimate version of community-supported agriculture — a farm-share program commonly known as CSA. In planning a new neighborhood, a developer includes some form of food production — a farm, community garden, orchard, livestock operation, edible park — that is meant to draw in new buyers, increase values and stitch neighbors together.
"These projects are becoming more and more mainstream," says , a fellow with the Urban Land Institute. He estimates that more than 200 developments with an agricultural twist already exist nationwide. read more>>>
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