July 14, 2009 at 4:00 am by Vanessa Barrington
Is a Farm Coming to a Strip Mall Near You?
Growing food closer to where we live, both in urban centers and suburban tracts, is going to become more important as oil prices rise. Right now, it’s an important step to providing access to healthy food for more people, making agriculture more sustainable and providing more opportunities for a younger crop of farmers. But it’s going to require a reversal in development patterns.
For generations, the pattern has been to pave over farmland with housing and shopping center developments. In California, particularly, this is a problem because California is …
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