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   by rejoice 8y ago

   East Wind pays $180/year per person into a fund held by communities that is much like the funds cited in that article, although relatively small. It's not insurance. It's a catastrophic health savings plan. It will pay (fo
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   by rejoice 8y ago

   They eat a lot of nut butter. The best nut butter is when they switch production from almond butter to cashew butter, there's like 50lbs of nut butter that comes out that is (::gasp!::) mixed in unknown amounts, so it can't be sol
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   by rejoice 8y ago

   This answer is unsatisfying, but: There are lots of different solutions to this problem, and they work for different people more or less well, but there is no (and in my opinion never will be) a single system that does this thing. That sai
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   by rejoice 8y ago

   Did you know that Sandor Katz, the author of The Art of Fermentation, lived on a commune in Tennessee during much of his adulthood? The commune gave him the opportunity to write you that book and the experience that fed into how he wrote i
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   by rejoice 8y ago

   Minor correction: East Wind, Twin Oaks, Acorn, Sandhill, and other communities are taxed as a 501(d) non-profits. The rest of this is true.
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   by rejoice 8y ago

   There's not a lot of information available online about PEACH (Preservation of Equity Accessible for Community Health), but it's a system by which East Wind and other communities pay in for all their members $15/month, and th