agrihood

English

Etymology

Blend of agriculture +‎ neighborhood

Noun

agrihood (plural agrihoods)

1. A type of planned community that integrates agriculture into a residential neighborhood. The purpose is to facilitate food production and to provide green space, recreation, aesthetics and value for a community.
   • 2015 September, Mi Ae Lipe, Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook‎^[1], TWISTED CARROT PUBL LLC, →ISBN, page 687:

     Welcome to the Agrihood! Martha Wagner Imagine walking out your front door and down the street to your neighborhood darm stand to pick up your weekly CSA share grown and raised a stone's throw from your house.

   • 2016 January 30, John Scott Watson, Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community‎^[2], University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 144:

     An agrihood is a housing development that uses a working farm as the “central feature” of the community.

   • 2018 February 5, Helmut Traitler, Michel J. F. Dubois, Keith Heikes, David Zilberman, Vincent Petiard, Megatrends in Food and Agriculture: Technology, Water Use and Nutrition‎^[3], Wiley, →ISBN, page 254:

     This is a really comprehensive description of what these new forms of agrihood can contribute to agriculture in particular and to society at large.

References

• “agrihood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.