teikei means A system of community-supported agriculture in Japan. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why “teikei” is a great word
TEIKEI — [Noun] A Japanese model of community-supported agriculture founded on a direct, cooperative partnership between farmers and consumers who share responsibilities, risks, and harvests. Borrowed from Japanese 提携 (teikei), meaning 'partnership', 'cooperation', or 'tie-up'. Unlike a generic CSA or a purely commercial subscription farm, teikei is a social covenant of mutual aid. It is the crumble of soil on a carrot, the shared labor in a muddy paddy, and the seasonal box containing the gnarled, glorious potatoes a supermarket would reject—a quiet insistence that nourishment is a relationship, not a commodity.
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- A system of community-supported agriculture in Japan.“A contract was drawn and the teikei concept was born. Translated literally, teikei means “partnership,” but philosophically it means “food with the farmer's face on it.” Twenty years later, the teikei idea migrated to the United States, inspiring the […]”