Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/640/en

in the territory in question. This, Rudolf Steiner held, would be valid "ideal-really." This entitlement secures for every human being, on the one hand, physical-bodily existence, and on the other hand obliges him to take on, in a trusteeship capacity, responsibility for the stewardship of that piece of earth. In the commercial, labour-divided world the individual cannot realize his entitlement on his own. He can, however, join together with other people and groups of farmers in an LWG, which in the ideal case buys out an agricultural operation from old legal bonds, takes an inventory of it according to the needs of biodynamic farming, and commissions the farmers to realize the obligations of use arising from the pooled entitlements of all the members. Against this attempt — to transform privately and freely disposable ownership of land and soil into a pure right of use, which gives as much free scope to individual initiative as to the social will to shape — the prevailing legal order sets up great resistances, above all through tax law. To venture such a step demands trust, a readiness for risk, courage and initiative, as well as a high degree of practical sense and community sense — virtues that unfold when a field of practice such as this opens before them. Related attempts to bring human beings once more into a responsibly active relationship to the earth open up in community-supported agriculture, which in North America has found wide currency under the designation Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA). Tom Petherick reports on an LWG in England. In many variations, LWGs and the efforts of community-supported agriculture are to be found in various countries of Europe. In the case of community-supported agriculture, the concern is primarily with the social shaping of the relationship between producers and consumers.