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That's hardly a question most American farmers would ask of the grocery chains or corporate middlemen that purchase their crops. But the Skinners are among a growing breed of producers dedicated to "community-supported agriculture." These CSAs, also known as subscription farms, sell shares of their harvest in advance directly to the consumer. They involve shareholder families through regular newsletters, potluck parties and even farm work. The lure is not just fresher, cheaper veggies but also a sense of belonging. Thus the Skinners' dismay didn't last. A score of shareholders showed up to weed. "When you help...
...border, Lior points out the nearby farmhouses from which Hizballah operatives monitor Israeli patrols. His soldiers have been warned that Hizballah will try to kidnap them for use as bargaining chips. The same warning was issued to Israeli farmers, who are nearing the end of the apple harvest and whose orchards reach to the very border, yards from the Hizballah watchers. "At this dangerous time," says Lior, whose family name can't be used due to Israeli army restrictions, "this place is really the end of the line." But not the end of the story...
Food selections will also be served on a new seasonal schedule with more squash and harvest vegetables in the fall, stews and meats in the winter, and more fresh fish and salads in the spring...
Only 10 percent of the country’s normal winter wheat harvest will be reaped this month. There are no seeds available in the country, which was once self-sufficient and a leader in Africa. Plantings for subsistence maize and cash crops will be much reduced this October and November. The money-earning tobacco crop was 20 percent smaller this year than before. Inflation is running at 600 percent per year—and rising. The Zimbabwe dollar, once on par with the U.S. dollar, is now devalued to a 6000 to 1 ratio with American currency. Under these...
...meantime, the cities had no choice but to cope as best they could--get the sanitation workers out to harvest the remains of every dead refrigerator, get the buses and trains moving. Ohio Governor Bob Taft declared a state of emergency in Cleveland after all four pumping stations that lift water out of Lake Erie went out and residents were ordered to boil their water at least through Sunday. Even the beaches were off limits for swimming after a sewage discharge sent bacteria levels soaring. At least one house fire in the city was blamed on burning candles...