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Bon appétit. A well-maintained urban garden can typically result in hundreds of pounds of fruits or vegetables every year—and add a few
hundred dollars to the value of your home.

FARM FINESSE

Homeowners have a new approach to going green: using a green thumb.

BY LARA HERMANSON
a fun way to reduce stress after work, digging and weeding
HEN LOOKING TO BUY OR RENT a new home, with local farmers that maintain the beds. Decades after air
there are many items on the future occupants’ conditioning drove urban and suburban dwellers indoors, the
standard wish lists: a state-of-the-art kitchen, two- outdoors has now become as attractive as a stunning interior.

Links: W car garage or a full gym space. But there’s a new Vegetable gardens, once a far-fetched concept to homeowners
green item among the residents’ most-wanted: urban farms. obsessed with lawn and manicured hedges, have become a
Individuals and families are flocking to new homes focal point in many urban and suburban homes. This booming
that include raised vegetable beds, an orchard and—space edible garden scene has already captured the West Coast and
permitting—a vineyard. Buyers not only want to enjoy the is starting to expand east, attracting the masses before they
produce these gardens give; they want to take advantage of even step foot inside a potential new home.

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