Page 10 RAIN June/July 1983 ACCESS: Agriculture ^MOLTlPtiNOnONAL fi07er^' ' wirki^^po pmtwn %' yt4 ipirch’ bencf/i^W »^(/fZ5£? of- h^^/mY •^ooidsdf’ivii^^ •^(0^d'W^(hxsi'9'om) o^(mof-hcrn€^ (omiij^^dJsrJ •Miof-l^ From: Gardening for All Seasons Food Marketing Alternatives for the Inner City The Consumer Division Community Nutrition Institute 114619th St. NW Washington, DC 20036 $10.00,1982, 91 pp. Access to food for inner dty residents, especially those with low income, has steadily declined over the past 15 years. Food Marketing Alternatives for the Inner City addresses this problem by offering marketing strategies based on the resources of the residents themselves. Strategies discussed include neighborhood organization to preserve local supermarkets, joint venture supermarkets, supermarket co-ops, farmers' markets, the food systems approach, and innovative methods such as computer assistance. To help inner city groups determine the marketing methods suitable for their particular areas and conshtuencies, each chapter includes at least one case study of an existing marketing arrangement along with access information to organizations and publications. Each chapter also contains a comprehensive "action checklist," invaluable to those implementing their chosen market strategy. Overall, this book is an extremely well-organized guide, a highly useful urban community action tool. -JS Gardening For All Seasons The New Alchemy Institute Staff Gary Hirshberg & Tracy Calvan, Eds. Brick House Publishing Co. 34 Essex St. Andover, MA 01810 $12.95,1983,309 pp. Those creative people at New Alchemy have been at it again, transforming paper and ink into gold. Gardening For All Seasons is the fruit of New Alchemy's extensive research and experience in gardening systems, bringing together horticulture, nutrition, domestic design, soil maintenance, aquaculture, fowl rearing, edible silviculture, community, food preservation, and (whew!) nutrient recyclmg. Anyone who ever thought that gardening begins with seeds wiU have a definite change in perception no matter how selectively this book is read. In fact, the extent of integration and focus on cycles is enough to make the new gardener plead in frustration, "But where do I start?" Happily, the book remains silent. Gardening For All Seasons does have a New England emphasis, but the superb presentation makes this book just as valuable to those of us outside the region. After all, any gardening book which devotes ten pages to worm culture has to be worth its weight in chicken manure. -JS ACCESS: Economics Working Free John Applegath' AMACOM 135 W 50th St. New York, NY 10020 $6.95,1982, 207 pp. Unemployment as an indicator of the failure of our economic system may be based on false assumptions about the relationship between work—as in "earning a living"—and an individual's ability to achieve a quality standard of life. FuU employment may be an unattainable goal, which is not to say that society cannot continue to find better ways to enhance the individual's quality of life, or that we are doomed to years of unemployment statistics. Instead, what we are facing is a radical shift in our concept of work. If we only apply our cliches about employment, that, for example, everyone should be working 9 to 5, earning money to "buy" their life support system, then we wiU continue to perceive unemployment as a sign of failure. Working Free is an excellent introduction to new ways of perceiving work. It is a practical guide to many creative altema-
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