A team of organizers and program directors has helped drive the plan to develop an affordable housing community in Bensley as an "agrihood" that integrates small-scale farming. From left are Erica Sims of HDA Advisors; Angela Patton, CEO of Girls for a Change; Danielle Freeman Jefferson, also of Girls for a Change; and Duron Chavis,
Virginia is one step closer to its first-ever affordable “agrihood”. Happily Natural, Girls for Change, and the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust (MWCLT) have won a US Department of Agriculture planning grant to develop a nine-acre lot in the Chesterfield neighborhood of Bensley, just south of the Richmond city line.