Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Yes, I'm not very familiar with them, but I see they are not an artificial
family in the way of the old hippie communes. Their colonies are composed
of real family groups, extended families. 

"The Hutterian Brethren Church today consists of over 350 church
communities in the USA and Canada. They are primarily a kinship group,
consisting of a dozen family names, all descendants of that 400 or so
immigrants from Russia. The Hutterites tend to live in groups of 50-150 on
large farms, called colonies, where everyone is generally related to each
other. The women wear head coverings and the married men wear beards. The
latest modern equipment is used on their large scale farming operations".
     and
"But there is an emotional cost to their style of socialization:
depression, anxiety, and alcoholism are problems in many colonies."
http://www.anabaptistchurch.org/hutterian_brethren.htm

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net

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On 7/18/2006 at 7:33 AM Nancy Babbitt wrote:

>Paul,
>
>The Hutterites are a communal people, living on scattered bruderhofe  
>or colonies throughout the prairies in North America.
>
>They are ag based, and a Christian community.  They share belongings.
>
>Nancy