Opportunities & Employment

Agriburbia® is growing.

Employment

The TSR Group is always seeking quality individuals in the following disciplines:

Landscape Architecture
Planning
Civil Engineering
Survey
Agricultural Sciences
Geographic Information Systems

Individuals need to be highly motivated and able to work in a consortium type environment.

Investors

One of the compelling aspects of an Agriburbia mixed-use campus is the potentially significant financial return for developers and owners.

Agriburbia is not a “get-rich” scheme, a multi-level marketing idea, or any sort of qualified investment or venture capital funded opportunity looking for investors.

Agriburbia is a new vision for feeding ourselves healthfully and for defining how and where we live. Agriburbia is about re-thinking and re-defining how we use land and water and how and where we grow food. It touches on all the other resources and components of 21st century land development and concepts.

In an Agriburbia mixed-use campus much of the open space and backyard landscape is actually used for productive agriculture by growing high-value food crops to feed the residents or to sell at local restaurants and markets to create cash income for the community’s HOA.

The result is a much different financial structure, both for initial outlay of capital to create the development, and in terms of offsetting ongoing costs. The savings and return on investment pass back to the home and business owners in the form of reduced HOA or Metropolitan District fees in a verdant, harmonious, and productive landscape.

Please contact us when you have financial resources that you would like to invest in an Agriburbia community.

A New Way to Consider Resources

Agriburbia is not attempting to recreate the pre-industrial past. We are not trying to develop agritourism destinations or living museums. We are instead solving the question of how we will all live well, eat well, and prosper in the coming ages.

This requires using all types of financing mechanisms and technologies available. We use metropolitan districts, business improvement districts, bonding, TIFs (potentially), and all other types of real estate financing to accomplish Agriburbia projects.

Agriculture is infrastructure, just like water utilities, sewer, roads, etc. We treat agriculture like these other backbones to the fabric of development with the appealing exception that farming can provide significant revenue. In some cases, the agriculture may even contribute to fixing potholes in the roads, the patching of pipes, or the reduction of HOA dues.

Farmers

Agriburbia anticipates a growing need for skilled urban farmers.

Farming Methods: There are multitudes of intensive farming techniques, some better in some conditions, others better elsewhere.

The two guiding principles in Agriburbia are to leave the soil more fertile than you found it (or at least as fertile), and to use water-smart irrigation (landscape scale, primarily drip or micro spray).

Regarding irrigation, no matter how much natural precipitation falls in the location of the site, it is imperative to use some form of supplemental irrigation. In intensive farming, this control over the environmental conditions allows for the grower to obtain higher yields, as well as to produce more consistently.