Brazil is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of poultry, accounting for 14% of global chicken meat production, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
This is Agritopia, an 11-acre (4.5-hectare) organic farm that’s all that remains after miles of alfalfa, corn, cotton, durum wheat and sugar beets were swallowed up byFarmland sits amid Agritopia, a community nestled around a plot of agricultural land, on Monday, April 21, 2025, in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
Farmland sits amid Agritopia, a community nestled around a plot of agricultural land, on Monday, April 21, 2025, in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Kelly Saxer, lead farmer at Agritopia, a community nestled around a plot of agricultural land, harvests lettuce April 22, 2025, in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Kelly Saxer, lead farmer at Agritopia, a community nestled around a plot of agricultural land, harvests lettuce April 22, 2025, in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)
In this “agrihood” — a residential community that includes a working farm — kids play outside at a school that borders vegetable fields or in communal green spaces nestled between homes. Well-dressed couples and boisterous teenagers flock for selfies and picturesque photos. Lines form at the diner featured on Guy Fieri’s Food Network show. On the farm itself, people can walk the dirt roads, rent out plots to grow their own foods or buy its produce.Some developers have turned to the agrihood concept in the past couple of decades to lure buyers with a different kind of amenity. At least 27 U.S. states and Canadian provinces had agrihoods as of a 2018 report from the Urban Land Institute, and more have cropped up since then.
Experts say agrihoods cater to buyers interested in sustainability, access to
and a mix of urban and rural life. The core aim of many projects is to “create a feeling for people,” said Matt Norris, one of the lead authors of that report.This image from video posted on the Children’s Health Defense website on March 31, 2025, shows Dr. Ben Edwards with a measles rash on his face, while working in a makeshift clinic in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo)
Edwards is asked whether he had measles, and he responded, “Yes,” thenthe video was recorded.
“Yesterday was pretty achy. Little mild fever. Spots came in the afternoon. Today, I woke up feeling good,” Edwards said in the video.Measles is most contagious for about four days before and four days after the rash appears and is one of the