"An Englishman's home is his castle"

[ultrarunner]

Very true... the cost of city infrastructure skyrockets with one home occupied in a neighborhood.

One of the rail to trails or habitat sanctuaries for firmer military bases is it prevents other uses and could in theory revert back to historic use should the need arise.

The Alameda Navel Air station is animal sanctuary but runways on the Bay remain... hum?

 

[ovrszd]

Used to think thats true, but after I saw what is happening in Detroit and other cities hollowed out by unions and offshoring of industry, I have seen city blocks revert back to open land.

And how many hundreds of acres has reverted back to farm land?

 

[Hay Dude]

And how many hundreds of acres has reverted back to farm land?

150 acres, just in one area.
Read much?


“A private company is snapping up 150 acres on the Motor City's East End -- property where more than 1,000 homes once formed a gritty neighborhood -- and turning it into what is being billed as the world's largest urban farm. Hantz Woodlands plans to start by planting trees, but hopes to raise crops and even livestock in the future, right in the midst of the once-proud city.”

Urban decay to be replaced with farmland in Detroit

The blight of some neighborhoods has gotten so out of hand that the city of Detroit is literally looking towards greener pastures to stop it.

www.foxnews.com

 

[ultrarunner]

10,000 acres is in the works...

New Detroit Farm Plan Taking Root

A scaled-back plan by a local entrepreneur envisions growing trees on city's blighted east side, returning thousands of vacant lots to tax rolls.

www.wsj.com

 

[ovrszd]

150 acres, just in one area. Read much?


“A private company is snapping up 150 acres on the Motor City's East End -- property where more than 1,000 homes once formed a gritty neighborhood -- and turning it into what is being billed as the world's largest urban farm. Hantz Woodlands plans to start by planting trees, but hopes to raise crops and even livestock in the future, right in the midst of the once-proud city.”

Urban decay to be replaced with farmland in Detroit

The blight of some neighborhoods has gotten so out of hand that the city of Detroit is literally looking towards greener pastures to stop it.

www.foxnews.com

and that will have what percentage impact on this nation's productivity?

 

[Hay Dude]

and that will have what percentage impact on this nation's productivity?

“Nations productivity”?

Hundreds of acres of urban land IS reverting back to farmland, despite your mockery and flimsy attempt at changing the subject.

 

[ovrszd]

“Nations productivity”?

Hundreds of acres of urban land IS reverting back to farmland, despite your mockery and flimsy attempt at changing the subject.

No subject change here. So how many Millions of acres of farmland is there in the U.S.?

And what impact would hundreds of acres have on that productivity?

 

[Hay Dude]

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

we love our abandoned rail lines. We use them all four seasons as great access routes into the very remote areas.

 

[ultrarunner]

Thought on equestrians...

I live in an area with plotted equestrian trails that have not seen a horse in 50 years.

The idea was to tie into a vast and broad network of trails which still exist.

That said... some of the original horse trails are now off limits to horses by public demand.

The once tended trails are often unusable because it was the horse people with loppers and saws maintaining.

Walkers seldom do the heavy lifting and are now asking taxpayers to maintain citing safety concerns.

I've been around a lot of horse people and they did a great job maintaining the bristle paths...