Forget Golf Courses: Subdivisions Draw Residents With Farms

2013-12-17T13:55:00-05:00

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.

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Forget Golf Courses: Subdivisions Draw Residents With Farms