b'IVFOODHave you ever tried to sharpen a reel lawn mower blade?Come on. You know what a reel lawn mower is, right? No gas engine. No electric motor. More than a little Luddite elegance. And a great excuse for your kids to make fun of you.Now, as to the sharpening questionhang in there, were going toget to local food systems and the future of capitalism in a second it turns out that its a bit of a to-do. You have to take a wheel off, etc., etc., etc. Not complicated in the technical scheme of things, but still a job that would flummox many of us, as would be described in considerable detail in Capitalism and the Lost Art of Reel Lawn Mower Blade Sharpening. The companion volume to Globalization and the Lost Art of Small-Scale Organic Farming. These lost arts, like so many endangered species, arent entirely lost, yet. Buy they are far too close to extinction for comfort.5'