This winter our family bought a share in Summit Springs Farm, a new CSA (community-supported agriculture) group in Poland Spring. I was impressed with this sign-off in its first newsletter on June 10,2008:
“… a quote from the great Kentucky author and farmer Wendell Berry, a long-time advocate of local economies and farms: ‘Eaters … must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used. This is a simple way of describing a relationship that is inexpressibly complex. To eat responsibly is to understand and enact,as far as one can, this complex relationship.’”
