The Hot New Trend in Suburbia Is Subdivisions With Their Own Farms

The Hot New Trend in Suburbia Is Subdivisions With Their Own Farms

You might own a CSA or keep your own chickens in the backyard of your brownstone, but the suburbs are way ahead of you: Communities planned around agriculture are the hot new thing in real estate development, and roughly 200 of them already exist.

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Speedos, Computers, and Robot Butlers: Rural Living in the Future

Speedos, Computers, and Robot Butlers: Rural Living in the Future

Nothing sells the push-button leisure society of tomorrow better than a farmer with ample time to lounge. Or in this case, a rancher in a speedo, getting served a refreshing drink by a robot. Sure things may be difficult now, but when even farmers have plenty of leisure time and the majority of their work is automated, you’ll know that the future has arrived. At least that was the idea.

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