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Agrihoods For A Happier Life

March 15, 2018 by Arica Haro

Olivette was recently featured on the Trulia Blog. The article asks the question, “could ‘agrihoods’ be the key to a happier life?” For the buyer that is not drawn by pools and golf courses, but possibly a deeper connection with nature and community, the answer may be yes. Olivette Riverside Community and Farm offers farm-to-table living with a focus on bringing community together. Read more about were the suburbs meet the farm below and follow the link for the full story.

Where the Suburbs Meet the Farm

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Could “agrihoods” be the key to a happier life?

Along the banks of North Carolina’s French Broad River, seven miles outside of Asheville, the very first neighbors in a housing development called Olivettehave shuffled their furniture and boxes out of moving trucks and into their brand-new homes.

These buyers weren’t drawn by the golf course or community pool—because Olivette doesn’t have those things. The 350-acre development is what founders Scott Austin, Allison Smith, and William Dickerson are calling an “agrihood.” What if, they wondered, we built a neighborhood around a working farm? And that’s exactly what they’ve done.

Justin Aiello and Jessica Heinrich run Olivette’s farm and teach residents about growing food.

“There is a gentle pull at everyone’s heart these days,” Allison explains. “We want connection with each other andconnection to the land. As gardeners ourselves, we’d noticed that there’s a vital, engaged community around growing food. So a farm seemed like a good way to create community.”

At the center of Olivette is a 46-acre organic farm that’s already growing salad greens, root vegetables, tomatoes, squash, berries, and Asian pears. Beehives are producing honey, and there are plans to add chickens, as well as goats to help trim the grass. All this creates a bucolic setting, but the farm isn’t just there to look pretty. Olivette’s early residents are already swinging by the packing shed to pick up baskets of fresh produce grown right here—just one perk of living in an agrihood.

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