Agrihood
Food Chain Radio Show #1245
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Agrihoods
Guest: Anna De Simone, Author, Welcome to the Agrihood: Housing, Shopping, and Gardening for a Farm-To-Table Lifestyle
Things are not looking too good in the big cities of America. And we don’t need to paint the picture, because its being painted every night on the evening news.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Can you take a nice farm in a nice location and develop it into our very own community paradise?
Lunch on a San Francisco sidewalk, anyone?
So, what to do? Well, one thing many are doing is moving out of the big city and setting up work-at-homes out in suburbia, or even exurbia. But then, what do we do with our “big city get-up-and-go” once we move out there?
Croquet and bingo, anyone?
Why not take that big city drive, that impulse that makes us want to stay up all night and plot schemes of business brilliance, to set up an agrihood? Yes! Take a nice farm in a nice location and develop it into our very own community paradise. Go ahead, let your imagination run wild. But be sure to keep some of the food chain’s “what’s-eating-what” right there in the community. You have to admit, it will make life much more inspirational than croquet and bingo. And so we ask:
Leave a comment below: Can one turn a farm into an agrihood?
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