Sunday, March 30, 2008

community supported agriculture.


"Many farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, coffee, or any sort of different farm products.

A CSA, (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" (or "shareholders," or "subscribers") of the CSA."

- from "Local Harvest" www.localharvest.org

Friday, March 28, 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

White Wedding Slippers

At night
mother opened a chest and took out
her white wedding slippers
of silk. Then slowly
daubed them with ink.

Early in the morning
she went inthose slippers
into the street
to line up for bread.
It was minus ten degrees,
she stood
for three hours in the street.

They were handing out
one-quater of a loaf per person.

-Anna Świrszczyńska

(Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan)