Issue 44, winter 2005When people talk to me about community as in community ventures or community initiatives, I always wonder what communities they are really referring to.
When I was younger, and that was not that so long ago (well, maybe), I lived in a farming community.
When I say community, I mean just that. In our ‘block’ there were four farms and three cottages. All belonged to the same estate and all those properties were lived in by Cornish farmers or farm workers.
Everyone knew each other and liked each other, or at least tried to like each other; you know what Cornish farmers can be like.
All year round, especially at harvest time and Christmas, all the farmers and their workers helped each other out and there was a real feeling of camaraderie among us.
