COMMUNITIES
Journal of Cooperative Living
Table of Contents/No. 96. Fall 1997
DEPARTMENTS
Letters
Publishers Note
Community Grapevine
Reviews
Directory Update
Classifieds
Calendar
Reach
FOCUS
Breaking Bread in Community
- From the Guest Editor
- Ranee Zaporski
- Food Fight!
- When is food more than "food"? A tale with ideas to munch on. Diana
Leafe Christian.
- Dinners at the Sharingwood Cafe
- Good kitchen and dining room design enhances the pleasures of preparing meals
and eating together. Rob Sandelin.
- When It's Your Turn to Cook
- Kashrut&mnsp; and Compromise at Ofek Shalom
- A new diet proposal stirs up major spiritual and philosophical issues.
Laurie Zimmerman and Ranee Zaporski
- Tastes of Short Mountain: The Culinary
Rewards of Community Living
- Much of the creativity, conflict, healing, and celebration in this rural
community involves cooking and sharing food. Sandorfag
- The Healthy Breakfast Club
- Yogurt Cream Cheese
- Making Sauerkraut
- Neighborfood
- Poem by Mary Maverick
- Food Wars
- Vigilant vegetarians vs. carousing carnivores; ice-cream aficianados vs.
the Sugar Police. Kat Kinkade.
- Wildcrafting in Our Yard
- Not enought time for a vegetable garden in your urban co-op?
Go our and browse the yard! Gaia Kile.
- Growing Your Own and Selling It, Too
- How a rural community turned enthusiasm for organic gardening into a
fertile CSA business. Tree Bressen and Ken Jollofsky.
FEATURES
- "No, It's Not a Cult": Relating to Your Family When You
Live in Community
- Practical advice for maintaining cordial, healthy relationships with loved ones
who don't understand why you live in community.Mariana Caplan.
- Halloween at The Farm: Honoring Our Dead at the Burial Ground
- Community members celebrate their departed on All Hallows Eve. Michael
Traugot.
COLUMNS
- MY TURN--"Admission Standards" for Communities
- Irwin Wolfe Zucker
- INTERN'S JOURNAL--Another Kind of Sustainability
- David Cooper Salamon
- SUSTAINABLE LIVING--After the Fire: The Lama Foundation's Kitchen and Dining
Center
- Scott Shuker
- FEDERATION UPDATE--A "Big Sister" Community to Help
- Alex McGee
- FELLOWSHIP NEWS--Bringing Our Vision Back Into Focus
- Tony Sirna
- HISTORIC COMMUNITIES--The Amana Colonies: Mysticism and Common Sense
- Steve Bjerklie
- PERIPATETIC COMMUNITARIAN--Food, Glorious Food!
- Geoph Kozeny
Front cover photo: "Molly" Chris Osmer in the old Llano kitchen at Twin
Oaks community, Louisa, Virginia, early 1980s. Photo by Bill Tiernan.
COMMUNITIES (ISSN 0199-9346) is published quarterly by Fellowship for
Intentional Community at Route 1, Box 155-W, Rutledge, MO 63563.
Send editorial submissions to COMMUNlTIES, PO Box 169, Masonville, CO
80541-0169.
Send address changes to COMMUNITIES, 138-W Twin Oaks Road, Louisa,
VA
23093.
Copyright 1997 by Fellowship for Intentional Community. All rights
reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Opinions expressed by authors and
correspondents are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the
publisher.
Community groups may reprint with permission. Please direct inquiries to
COMMUNITIES, PO Box 169-W, Masonville, CO 80541; 970 593-5615.
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EDITOR
Diana Leafe Christian
ART DIRECTOR and COVER DESIGNER
Paul DeLapa
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Lansing Scott
(Meridian House)
ILLUSTRATIONS
Billie Miracle
(WomanShare)
CARTOONS
Jonathan Roth
PHOTOS
Albert Bates
Jillian Downey
Bob McEowen
Alex McGee
Bill Tiernan
COPYEDITING
Tree Ivy Bressen
(Acorn)
PROOFREADING
Geov Parrish
REACH ADS
Patricia Greene
(Clearview)
DIRECTORY UPDATE
Jonah "Cecil" Scheib
(Dancing Rabbit)
BUSINESS MANAGER
Laird Sandhill
(Sandhill Farm)
DATABASE MANAGEMENT
Velma Kahn
(Abundant Dawn)
CIRCULATION MANAGER
Valerie Renwick
(Twin Oaks)
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
Betty Didcoct
(TIES)
Geoph Kozeny
(Community Catalyst Project)
Laird Sandhill
(Sandhill Farm)