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Earth Farm from all stations of life. They are eager to learn how to do the things that were once a part of their grandparents’ everyday lives.

During the past century, our country suffered a rural exodus; current fgures estimate that 80 percent of the United States population now lives in cities. The result is that agrarian communities are diminished. Nowhere in recent human history are our tribal, interdependent natures more realized than in farming communities; although these social units are not without dysfunction, ostracism, and strife, here the human spirit seems to thrive. ( Wild Card Quilt ) Georgia Organics website recently publicized Raven’s “Raising Chickens in Your Yard - An Egg to Chicken Dinner Workshop” this past May as an opportunity to “learn about raising chicks, keeping a fock, various style coops, and a demonstration in getting a chicken from the farm to your refrigerator” (www.georgiaorganics.org). As usual, the workshop flled up quickly and was a great success. In the workshop on “fermentation,” participants