May 2002

Find Your Inner Farmer

Know Your Food, Know Your Farmer
by Nicole Magistro
Angelic Organics, located near Caledonia, Illinois, is the nation’s largest in a movement known as community supported agriculture. Participants buy shares of a farm’s produce at the beginning of each harvest season. But even better is the opportunity to work the farm as a volunteer.

The Ethnobotanist and the Shaman
by Ana Arias Terry
Since the late seventies, Dr. Mark Plotkin has been conducting basic scientific research and a taxonomy of plants, learning how indigenous people use these plants for medicines and paying close attention to their cultures.

Have We Lost Our Civility?
by Mark Harris
People may appreciate good manners, but more important they need hope and a fair deal in their lives. And on that score it also seems reasonable to argue that we live now in very uncivil times.

Made in the Shade
by Jonn Salovaara
Even at its most unkempt, the Rookery was a welcome relief from the over-determined rest of the city. Now it’s been cleaned and pruned to restore the site to a late 1930s design. Perhaps it should have been left alone.

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