Field Notes: Farms, coming to a suburb near you

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This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which we talk about important issues related to food production.

When you think of moving to a housing development in the suburbs, you might imagine golf courses, swimming pools and rows of identical houses. But that could be changing. There’s a new model springing up across the country that taps into the local food movement. In this week's Field Notes, Harvest Public Media reporter Luke Runyon reports that farms -- complete with livestock, vegetables and fruit trees -- are serving as the new suburban amenity.

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