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.
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
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)