Agriburbia

Fifty is the new forty, forty is the new thirty, and agriculture is the new golf. At least that's the aim of developers trying to revive acres of unfinished subdivisions; ghostly testaments to the housing market implosion. Town planners are working with developers to design communities around sustainable agriculture similar to how golf communities were designed around golf courses. It's a bit of a stretch, but it could work. A very small percentage of people living in golf course communities actually play golf, whereas everybody eats. Granted it won't be as easy as laying down some sod and putting in sand traps for a nine hole golf course, but with a large portion of the nation's people yearning for a return to simpler times "agriburbia" just might work well; and in the process create jobs, supply food, and help the environment. Not all existing suburbs built during the housing market boom will make the cut of being suitable for conversion to sustainable urban farm communities, several of the "McMansion" subdivisions will more than likely succumb to ruin. But subdivisions transformed into sustainable farming communities is doable, not easy, but doable.