Diary (May 3, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday May 3, 2020.

Diary

Grace and Force

Thinking about David Dyer-Bennett, whose rhetoric combines "grace and force" - qualities which typically counteract each other, show their quality when combined.

Jig my wig

What? Oh, jig my wig.

Community-supported agriculture

C'mon people now
Scale down to CSA
Everybody get together
Try and localize agriculture now

Wikipedia:

Community-supported agriculture (CSA model) is a system that connects the producer and consumers within the food system more closely by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms. It is an alternative socioeconomic model of agriculture and food distribution that allows the producer and consumer to share the risks of farming. The model is a subcategory of civic agriculture that has an overarching goal of strengthening a sense of community through local markets.[2]

In return for subscribing to a harvest, subscribers receive either a weekly or bi-weekly box of produce or other farm goods. This includes in-season fruits and vegetables and can expand to dried goods, eggs, milk, meat, etc. Typically, farmers try to cultivate a relationship with subscribers by sending weekly letters of what is happening on the farm, inviting them for harvest, or holding an open-farm event. Some CSAs provide for contributions of labor in lieu of a portion of subscription costs.

The term CSA is mostly used in the United States and Canada, but a variety of similar production and economic sub-systems are in use worldwide.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)