The crops on which we depend -- like wheat, rice and vegetables -- are the collective product of human effort and ingenuity.
Alongside the city's satellite towns, large-scale commercial agriculture and "agro-recreational" plots owned by residents of Moscow (e.g., dachas, collective orchards, and vegetable gardens) extend 12 to 50 miles (20 to 80 km) from the city centre.
They have cooked pots of bruised vegetables for Food Not Bombs, a collective in North Carolina.
A collective system for selling organic vegetables to the city, devised by Ms. Lopata, never got off the ground.
THE SETTLERS -- About a third of the settlers are farmers living in agricultural collectives, growing vegetables and flowers.
At a farming collective northeast of Ashkelon, Binyamin Elbaz, 52, a vegetable grower, stood in his hothouse and expressed his suspicions.
With help from Mangala's organization, Social Action for Association and Development or SAAD, the women will start a vegetable nursery, and tend and sell their produce as a collective.
Another example, outside our portfolio, is San Francisco-based Veritable Vegetable, a trailblazer founded in 1974 as part of a collective called the People's Food System.
Most of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the U.S.S.R. came from the small private plots of collective farmers, who, being allowed to grow produce for their own profit, had greater incentives to bring more foodstuffs to the market.
LaConte predicts that gardening and small-scale collective farming will become an increasingly important source of fresh fruits and vegetables for average Americans in the years to come.
