The Agrihood currently has 165 affordable homes and an nearly quarter-acre urban farm that’s open to the public.
SANTA CLARA — Across the street from Valley Fair Mall, Asian cucumbers, Glass Gem corn and Swiss chard sprout up on a nearly quarter-acre farm reminiscent of the region’s days as the Valley of the Heart’s Delight.
“We’re preserving part of the agricultural history of not just Santa Clara, but this entire valley,” she told the Mercury News. “This was one of the last remnants of agriculture and so we’re still keeping part of that. It’s also important, especially when we put affordable housing for seniors and veterans, that we give them and make the open space the anchor tenant of the development.”
The concept of combining housing with an urban farm isn’t a new one and several other agrihoods have already popped up around the state in recent years in cities like Rancho Mission Viejo, Davis and Fremont. The site, which was previously owned by the state until the city purchased it in 2005, wasBut as the city started planning for housing on the six-acre property on Winchester Boulevard, many residents wanted to preserve the location’s agricultural history.
Terrence Reilly, left, and Louis Gutierrez, right, visit the Agrihood housing community urban farm on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Santa Clara, Calif. The urban farm and housing complex has 165 senior housing units alongside 1.5 acres of open space.
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