FOOD Community Self-Reliance, Inc. Annual Report, 1977, $1 from: Hampshire Community Canning Center Box 104 , Northampton, MA 01060 It looks like this active group is really making strides towards helping people in their community become more selfreliant food-wise. Their canning {::enter is open 72 hol!rs a week during canning season; they organized three Food Processing Fairs so that consumers could buy in bulk easily froin farmers; they have an outreach/educational program for low~income (and next year on in the public schools), and they are doing all kinds of educational activities to convince the people of their community_ that it is possible to become independent from the large amounts of food exported into Massachusetts. The report is well documented with some good quotable nlfmbers and is nicely put together. Worth checking out if you're doing similar things. -LdeM Dry It-You '11 Like It! by Gen MacManiman, 1973, from: MacManiman Inc. Fall City, WA 98024 This book caught my eye several years ago with its unforgettable title. Now that I've read it, I'm more than ready to jump in and Dry It! In addition to clear, simple plans for building your own food dehydrator, there are numerous recipes and inst-ructions for drying many kinds of foods. The food dryer is a great project to start on now before the bounty of nature in our gardens overwhelms us. It's wonderful to have choices other than composting the surplus that comes to us at harvest time. So what more to say, Dry It! -LS 1lJ'fAL. JAF.~ Plf0Ct?9'3ED n,,t.. l'f77 ,eA5~ ':,~51 QVA~T1 2,e!, p1t-1i-, Growing & Saving Vegetable Seeds, Marc Rogers, 1978, $4.95 from: Garden Way Publishing Charlotte, VT 05445 Another gardening idea that is complimentary to self-reliance and letting go of our dependence on corporations is the art of Growing &. Saving Vegetable Seeds. This book describes the ratidnale behind raising your own seed, as well as methods of pollination, selection, collection, extracting, drying, storing and testing seeds for propagation. All the basic information you need to start collecting this season is here in a format that's easy to use as a reference. - LS from Dry It You'll Like It! July 1978 RAIN Page 7 from Community Self Reliance Annual Report LEARNING 1977-78 National Directory of Public_ Alternative Schools, edited by Anne ,Flaxman and Kerry Christensen Homste3:d, 200 pages, $4.20 from: National Alternative Schools Program School of Education University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 0 1003 I have-no idea how complete this directory is, but the several alternative programs I know of in public schools around the country are included. The book is handsomely laid out and therefore easy to use. A good reference for people wanting to get some hints as to who's doing what in alternative learning these days. -LdeM ~""'Y 0,,.-1,,.7,,Scfw•L ,o,t,,• from National Directory of Public Alternative Schoo
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