Great piece in the Philadelphia Citizen on agrihoods. As the writer Quinn O’Callaghan explains, the concept entails running small commercial farming operations at the center of neighborhoods, where small-scale manufacturers used to be. A group in Detroit is putting the idea to a test. Agrihoods haven’t shown up here yet, but “not for lack of trying,” O’Callaghan writes. Paul Glover, a former gubernatorial candidate for the Green Party Pennsylvania, has been floating an idea for just such a venture in Logan Triangle for the last couple of years. It’s not a new concept in these parts, O’Callaghan notes.
Hell, you could say that the city itself was founded as a massive agrihood, considering that William Penn wanted every Philadelphian to have an acre of land for this city to be an agrarian, orchard-focused wonderland.