Novice farmers lease plots of farm land from the center at a discount, cultivate the land, sell their produce to local businesses and at farmer’s markets, and keep the profits. The farmers also sell their fruit and vegetables once a week on The Cannery property, providing residents with easy access to everything from peppers to melons to leafy greens."
My wife and I stayed at a really nice B&B in Midway, Utah several years ago called "The Johnson Mill" (since converted back to a home, unfortunately). It was adjacent to some large farm fields. A couple weeks before we arrived for our stay, the farmer applied ripe manure to his next door fields the Friday before a wedding was scheduled at the inn. I imagine the bride and groom will have some fun wedding stories to tell their kids and grandkids.
It sounds so romantic having beautiful farm fields next door to your house, but city slickers don't know that farms are stinky, dusty, and noisy places. Maybe these will be hobby farms with an organic farmer in coveralls manually picking caterpillars off the produce one by one and carefully pulling out each weed by hand.
An inspirationa idea for san francisco — crap in your living room!
Nice idea. However, for 361 units, the farm land looks too small to
support 361 families.
“Well, Charles, it’s your turn to weed the lower 40 this weekend.”
“Uh, sorry, not gonna be able to do that. The wife and I were hitting the slopes in Vail this weekend.”
I’ve thought about this for years: a planned community/subdivision (sans HOA) with each lot having enough cleared space (including for sun) for a family garden and a back yard/pool area.
San Jose/Santa Clara/Silly-Con Valley, Californication....
San Jose calls itself the “capitol of Silly-Con Valley”
but it used to be known as “the Garden City” and it was a huge producer of oranges, bing cherries, and other kinds of produce
not every change is necessarily for the better
You’re right. My mother-in-law lives next to a farm. When we go visit my car is filthy within a day from the dust that blows in from the fields.
Somehow I don’t think the food is “free”. These farms tend to charge the same prices as a supermarket. I’ve never found any bargins.
Cool! Put in a hog farm on one side and a dairy on the other.
The farm in question will be stripped bare in no time (probably at night) - if not by the hundreds of residents, then by animals.
After the first crop, the place will go mainly to weed, but half-hearted efforts by a handful of residents could get in a second season crop, and yes, some hippy snowflakes will be out there pulling various insects off the plants and hand pulling weeds until they get dirty, get bitten, break a nail or all three on the same day - suddenly there will be other things to do like go to Wholefoods ....
In the Soviet Union this would have been called a collective.
Their website includes an article about a Detroit farm. Figures: the take is less than 25lbs of food per household per year for 2,000 households and requires 8-10,000 volunteers. Part of the downside besides paying premium prices for housing is a constant flow of strangers and activity:
“The all-volunteer non-profit that is MUFI has heralded big changes in its home neighborhood, where twosquare blocks of formerly vacant land has been transformed into “a three-acre agricultural campus,” anchored by a “two-acre urban farm that has produced more than 50,000 pounds of free produce since 2012 to more than 2,000 households, food pantries, churches, and businesses within two square miles of the farm.” These impressive figures come from David Darovitz, a volunteer communications director for MUFI who has been working with the organization for the last two years.
According to Darovitz, their agrihood, with the help of an average of 8,000 to 10,000 volunteers per year”
All the fertilizer they need can be scraped up off the sidewalks nearby.