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Home, home on the sprawl
My husband and I have been farming in the suburbs of Washington, DC for four years. The sprawl galloping towards us has been great for business. Families settling into new homes are eager for a taste of the countryside that lured them out here. Our CSA program has a growing wait list of folks eager to chomp on a “real” tomato and bring the kids out for a picnic in paradise. Unfortunately, much of the remaining paradise between tracts of new homes is disappearing, making way for housing developments with lofty names like “Hopewell’s Landing” and, ironically, “The Reserve at Jamison’s Farm.” Country roads are expanding ever wider with more turn lanes to more strip malls.
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