{"id":4069,"date":"2014-05-23T10:39:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T09:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2014-05-23T10:39:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T09:39:58","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-agrihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=4069","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – agrihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Agrihoods- neighbourhoods and communities based around (usually) urban farms.\u00a0 No I’d never heard of them either until this week.\u00a0 One of the big problems with peak oil is our current food systems oil dependency. We have covered this in our book<\/a> and here<\/a>. Climate change will present another challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One partial solution is to grow food in urban areas.\u00a0 This is the apparent aim of many agrihoods.\u00a0 However, having a look at this site with a list of agrihoods<\/a> I have some concerns.\u00a0 First many of the agrihoods are not urban but in the country.\u00a0 Land is lost for building which slightly defeats the aims of agrihoods.\u00a0 The second is that they are obviously businesses.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with that, but its not the article implies.\u00a0 The housing is built around the farm and looks very white, affluent and middle class.\u00a0 Again nothing wrong with it, but my idea of community includes more diversity.\u00a0 I’m also not sure having large open air swimming pools makes the agrihoods very sustainable.\u00a0 Many seem to be building their own schools and health centres.\u00a0 I’m uncomfortable with the idea of isolation I would prefer to live in a community that shares and uses the amenities around it rather than cuts itself off from them.\u00a0 Looking at the websites the agrihoods look very controlled and remind me of what I have read about Disney’s town of Celebration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In principle the idea is a good one.\u00a0 What I assumed was that the agrihoods consisted of was the following;\u00a0 a group of people who purchase some land in or on the edge of an urban area and cooperate on growing and selling their food whilst interacting with the community around them.\u00a0 This is not what the above are.\u00a0 Please post any agrihoods that you know of that are genuinely\u00a0 cooperative.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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