{"id":2404,"date":"2011-04-29T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:25:49","slug":"agriburbia-are-we-already-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/04\/agriburbia-are-we-already-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriburbia&#8211;are we already there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utne.com\/Wild-Green\/Welcome-to-the-Neighborhood-Farm.aspx\">This Utne Reader article<\/a> describes what may be a subdivision trend&#8211;designing residential neighborhoods integral to farms.<\/p>\n<p>New developments in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairiecrossing.com\/\">Chicago<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/serenbe.com\/\">Atlanta<\/a>, and Colorado are moving beyond community gardens and contracting with farmers to run and manage the farm next door. And as the article points out, there is the potential for conflict, &#8220;pesticide drift,&#8221; etc. This is why we zoned in the first place, to separate perceived noxious uses, and even though these residents will be a self-selected group ready to get their hands dirty, fresh tomatos are one thing, manure is quite another. When you look at the websites, there is a definite &#8220;people like us&#8221; vibe that makes you wonder if agriburbia is the green equivalent of a gated community.<\/p>\n<p>But in Montgomery County, <a href=\"http:\/\/mocoalliance.org\/\">1\/3 of our land is reserved for agricultural uses <\/a>and lots of people live out there. The question is are they there for the view or for the vegetables?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">This Utne Reader article describes what may be a subdivision trend&#8211;designing residential neighborhoods integral to farms.<\/p>\n<p>New developments in Chicago, Atlanta, and Colorado are moving beyond community gardens and contracting with farmers to run and manage the farm next door. And as the article points out, there is the potential for conflict, &#8220;pesticide drift,&#8221; etc. This is why we zoned in the first place, to separate perceived noxious uses, and even though these residents will be a self-selected group ready to get their hands dirty, fresh tomatos are one thing, manure is quite another. When you look at the websites, there is a definite &#8220;people like us&#8221; vibe that makes you wonder if agriburbia is the green equivalent of &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/04\/agriburbia-are-we-already-there\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,63],"tags":[247,103,248,249],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-planning","category-zoning","tag-agriburbia","tag-agricultural-reserve","tag-montgomery-countryside-alliance","tag-residential-subdivision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11368,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}