Posted on 05/27/2023 6:39:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
"That means, the guys say, that they want to make the units affordable within the growing Houston real-estate market and provide enough of a community and active neighborhood to entice people. They are looking at building vertically, committing to two- or three-story homes, rather than sprawling bungalows on huge lots.
'Then you can condense everyone into a smaller space, and they can then walk to everything they need to get to. And we can reserve huge portions of the property for wildlife habitat and agriculture,' says Snodgrass."
15 min city?
Suppose somebody started one of these centered around a 800 head pig farm...
This always sounds nice.
And then come the people who do not understand that farming is smelly, loud and dusty.
And how are you going to make those homes "handicap accessible"?
What’s a CSA?
Likely ‘Community Supported Agriculture’. Communist dream.
Community Supported Agriculture...officially
Thanks. I don’t know why writers can’t define initials the first time they’re used in a piece.
People buy shares of produce and get what they get. Usually it’s in the form of a weekly box. They also usually have to pay ahead of time which gives the growers working money. It’s a feel good thing for buyers.
Our rural version of an agri-hood here in the Ozarks.
I have 8 acres here and can drive 15 miles to get to the Amish farm store for produce or another farm that has an inspected slaughter facility where I can buy beef/pork/chicken raised and processed on the farm.
We like our hood sprawling and well separated. No subdivision life.
I’m also growing my own tomatoes and pole beans this year and have seen a lot of new veggie gardens around here.
Yep. Good idea. I hope it works for them.
Without me having to pay for it. By me, I mean the taxpayers.
I have a feeling that the roads and infrastructure will be paid for by the taxpayers. But I could be wrong....
No thanks. I’d rather buy as much of what produce I want when I want it. Buying direct from the farm doesn’t work too well around here, anyway, because most of the acreage is in cotton, with some sorghum and alfalfa, none of which I need.
A story.
Wife and I bought a home in town. Lot was only 150 ft wide but 1000 feet deep. Property beside was the same. So we had this big field behind our house. Beautiful. 2nd day we moved in, went downstairs for a cup of coffee. Looked out back and there was a guy plowing up our backyard! Wife had a come apart so I went out back and asked him, basically, WTF? He said I’ve been planting this property for 40 years! Corn, tomatoes, squash, peas, cucumbers, pretty much any kind of produce you could think of.
Turned out it was a great way to not have to mow a 3 acres of backyard. Plus, we got all the vegetables we wanted!
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Wait till they find out that hens often quit laying eggs for a while, and that it takes a year and a half for a calf from birth to steaks. On top of that it’s work!
Where are they going to get hay?
cattle feed?
42 acres, LOL
You have been busy making so many improvements! Everything will pay big dividends in food and easier labor in the future.
I spend a LOT of time ‘thinking’ about making life easier for myself as I grow older. All ‘shortcuts’ are welcome, as far as I’m concerned. :)
There is something to be said about having a neighbor that gardens in a big way.
The next farm over from us (horse farm) is owned by a guy who is ex-Amish & his ‘English’ wife. Summer of 2020, while we were all TRAPPED IN OUR HOMES, I went a little NUTS on the tomatoes - planted 36 of them or some insane number, so I had PLENTY to share.
Enos said to me, ‘Woman, you sure can grow a tomato! These taste as good as the ones my Mom used to grow on our farm!’
He was SO appreciative, and I felt greatly complimented coming from someone that had grown up in that hard-scrabble life. ;)
Everybody’s got a ‘gimmick.’
Usually? It’s a TRAP!
I agree. I do not like the idea of CSAs. The MA Colonies tried the Biblical Pool-our-resources and equal shares for all communism at the founding of the Plymouth colony. The result was that people starved to death. A few people did all the work and everyone else benefited...or not. After a while the workers recognize they are being taken advantage of and stop working. After a couple of disasterous years, the Governor (Bradford I think) assigned families private plots and people worked them and surprise, there was enough food to trade and eat.
Rather than CSA it would be better to provide allotments and let individuals work them. That way people have the benefit of their own labor and choice as to what they grow (or not!)
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