Community-Supported Agriculture Co-Ops in Lancaster, PA With the weather turning warmer, my thoughts turn to fresh produce. And with that, CSAs come to mind. A CSA is a program of community-supported agriculture put together by a single farm or by several farms working together, in which non-farming families/individuals can buy shares of whatever is harvested [...]
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released June 2009 employment figures. Here’s how the month stacked up in Lancaster County, compared to the June numbers from the past ten years: Report problems to embedding@chartle.net The movement is much more subtle when looking at just the first six months of 2009: Report problems to embedding@chartle.net [...]
According to preliminary reports [pdf] from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, 7,229 babies were born in Lancaster County in 2008. Only Philadelphia County, Allegheny County, and Montgomery County had more. There were a total of 148,927 births in PA last year, which means that five percent of children born in Pennsylvania last year were born [...]
A list of attendees of the July 16, 2009 tweetup at the Penn Square Marriott in Lancaster, PA
In the face of something as powerful, widespread, and simple as Facebook events and Twitter, and in the face of formal organizations of ordinary citizens having far less power than entrenched individuals and corporations, I think we are beginning to see an important trend. The formal organization, inefficient and impotent, is on its way out. The (extremely) loose association, easy and far-reaching, is on its way back in.
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