agrihood
/ˈæɡɹɪˌhʊd/
agrihood noun: 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.
Noun
agrihood (plural agrihoods)
- 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.
- 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.2015 September, Mi Ae Lipe, Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook, TWISTED CARROT PUBL LLC, →ISBN, page 687
- An agrihood is a housing development that uses a working farm as the “central feature” of the community.2016 January 30, John Scott Watson, Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 144
Forms of agrihood
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Origin of agrihood
Blend of agriculture + neighborhood.
Questions about agrihood
- What does agrihood mean?
- Agrihood means 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.
- What part of speech is agrihood?
- Agrihood is a noun.
- How do you pronounce agrihood?
- Agrihood is pronounced /ˈæɡɹɪˌhʊd/.
- What is the plural of agrihood?
- The plural of agrihood is agrihoods.
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