All around the U.S., subdivision developers are building housing developments around organic farms in hopes it will increase the chance of someone buying their newly built homes.
The success of two initial developments, one outside Chicago and the other outside Boise, Idaho, proved the concept worked, and like-minded developers around the country are trying it on inactive farmland and even on formerly industrial land. Over 200 development projects around the country are using agriculture and working organic farms as a key sales component of the projects.
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