Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Farm Then and Now: A Model for Sustainable Living
    The Farm Then and Now: A Model for Sustainable Living
    The Farm Then and Now: A Model for Sustainable Living
    Ebook293 pages6 hours

    The Farm Then and Now: A Model for Sustainable Living

    By Douglas Stevenson

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    From commune to ecovillage — an in-depth look at the past, present and future of the world’s best-known intentional community

    In the Summer of Love in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury, a charismatic young hippie by the name of Stephen Gaskin launched "Monday Night Class"—a weekly event which drew together an eclectic mix of truth-seekers and flower children. Soon the class became a caravan, and after touring the country this colorful crew decided to seek a plot of land and found a commune based on their shared values. Thus was born The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee.

    The Farm Then and Now presents the story of a group that has defied the odds, blending idealism with a practical approach to intentional community and creating a model for sustainable living. Just as the Monday Night Classes taught students to open their hearts and minds, The Farm continues as a School of Change, demonstrating ways to operate collectively in terms of:

    • Land, water, and stewardship
    • Health care, building, and infrastructure
    • Cooperation, compassion, and spiritual values

    For humans to survive as a species, we must relearn the skills needed to work together; the lessons of The Farm can be applied in any community or organization. The Farm Then and Now addresses both the successes and shortcomings of this unique ongoing social experiment, showing how what was once the largest commune in the world has evolved into an exceptional example of living lightly on the earth.

    Douglas Stevenson has been a member of The Farm Community for forty years. His company Green Life Retreats hosts the Farm Experience Weekend and other instructional seminars about sustainable living.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Society Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781550925654
    The Farm Then and Now: A Model for Sustainable Living
    Author

    Douglas Stevenson

    Douglas Stevenson, has been a member of The Farm Community for 40 years. He has been a volunteer with Plenty International, the community's relief and development nonprofit, and is an active board member of Swan Conservation Trust. His company Green Life Retreats hosts the Farm Experience Weekend and other instructional seminars about sustainable living.

    Related to The Farm Then and Now

    Related ebooks

    Modern History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Defending Diversity

      Sep 15, 2023

      “Why are you so woke?” I just answered yet another reader who wondered what diverse cultures have to do with homesteading. While many readers thank us for covering all people within “can-do communities” and the long history of farming in all cultures

      2 min read

    • Article

      True Blues

      Feb 22, 2019

      True Blues
      6 min read

    • Article

      Wendell Berry

      Nov 6, 2017

      The writer, activist and farmer on his new book, The Art of Loading Brush, and the future of American land

      2 min read

    • Article

      Saving Seeds, Saving Cultures

      Mar 1, 2019

      Saving Seeds, Saving Cultures
      5 min read

    • Article

      Wild Work

      Sep 23, 2021

      Wild Work
      4 min read

    • Article

      READ & WATCH

      Aug 4, 2021

      THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF WHAT KEEPS THE EARTH, AND US, HEALTHY BY MATTHEW EVANS (MURDOCH BOOKS 2021) Review by Emily Stokes Even if you think you know a lot about soil, by reading Matthew Evans’ tome on the good dirt you are guaranteed to find out mor

      4 min read

    • Article

      Our Heads In The Cloud

      Mar 2, 2020

      NICHOLAS CARR is the best-selling author of several books about technology and its consequences. A new, expanded edition of his 2010 book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, will be published thi

      2 min read

    • Article

      New Website Helps

      Mar 18, 2022

      New Website Helps
      1 min read

    • Article

      Portable Poultry

      Jan 15, 2021

      Portable Poultry
      3 min read

    • Article

      Buying a Pork Share

      May 12, 2023

      Buying a Pork Share
      3 min read

    • Article

      Deep Litter MANAGEMENT

      Feb 7, 2020

      Repugnance for what comes out the far end of an animal is not merely cultural conditioning—our senses are warning us of potential danger: Feces can be a vector for disease. Joel’s quote above implicitly advises us to trust that repugnance: If it smel

      8 min read

    • Article

      Feeding the Future

      Jan 8, 2018

      Feeding the Future
      6 min read

    • Article

      Growing Nutrientdense Vegetables Using Regenerative Farming

      Oct 1, 2021

      Gert Janse van Rensburg, a successful commercial vegetable producer, follows regenerative farming principles. He emphasises that farmers should aim to build up the soil rather than break it down. Regenerative agriculture can takes years to refine, bu

      4 min read

    • Article

      Work With The Birds

      Mar 15, 2024

      Chickens have helped me garden for years. That statement may invoke images of hens gently setting seeds into the ground or munching on weeds. As idyllic as that would be, it’s not reality. Chickens would rather eat those seeds and munch on the tomato

      2 min read

    • Article

      Animals Are Sacred

      Feb 10, 2021

      VEGETARIANISM, known in Sanskrit as Shakahara, was a principle of health and environmental ethics throughout the Hindu world for thousands of years. In Hindu Dharma, life is of the Divine, an emanation of the source and part of a cosmic continuum. Th

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Joy Of Movement

      Aug 11, 2020

      The Joy Of Movement
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Farm Then and Now

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Farm Then and Now - Douglas Stevenson

      ޿Oabook_preview_excerpt.html|˲GJfҔJ4Q(GDɪwu33|\Z7a>GdU #ŸǏ{ϧyLؿxfRm_<_|_y[}ǯg˷^}ݫwUiX-CǩyL8MiebSqjsUPէ?ӡqj>k.S Sm\5!m]MnCW_ql{ݍqf|rW}G\WaS;Uu؟6Nϧ8T_K sxq>ñTuap(xs"{e-=D8ɠ70 })$.ظfL;/ 3,̮db8.Ch]}M*V[:UQ3Ms9^"L!ƆK |O?}hGЂQ"z۰#]h}p$՝g2f05L.r/iI~h;R(W lZGp*#.=e:fHּS%,C_`JiuŢ2DAgKv΀vE .53=qE>_[x-l {U5/҂O 䌷a9x(G|2G0zv50B L":bIx/?t><iDo׈{zʤwJvV*C.>k ˌik4vnHp8MNI |}ZQ9?Wx+@h= Ώ6@Talov9,z0lIHhC(, tj0 x:X82O+Ib/I%j7 rw3J_6et90"w)*mi*Bq #w{/ idL q^<Ԍc*Djetybya^Vʢ؆nfLL,)moMT6!ZMִĽߔu旼ƌg:=`B˸\=aZsP]wW& ݙ&3hX4430:AP]Sw^G`R6A8yB}wHGĤGUxzdPiI aݚW)mz%ic!7&r%&`@X`INf1Mj)KQ=-rYXġd Vb FfQ 7\ࡌ/_߇{т1ФBa]2)Z6akN M IE!%2XQsy5/1MF2'MHe#Ꝟsbly%}<ðBrh P||S[޹zӨKt19I2T Zl hrG%QZv!1}U5T2{S.Z5{ 3/9@z hT%>if!ɰh1{8)qhMϯTˉ>L0["^x  ʶfO*,D6EFE?X \s?UPWߖ|Jot(1 +.m'J,N= Bu, ,vGm@QT](_ 8݆2eBEu.%zM7U Όo;|kA1/G6" :ΞpQ9(Pxw7 ~>Z9!GLi +,^mZmf+ZC-MxT'W6} EmI% t}:*q+a:a {XW|ǠQ0nG!x}Elww!i1>(S_Ȧ#[Z"Byþ03ji|G6^}?~C̻W6Jo,E?T/_}_}Y}JTb1ecAWᦲ)z`ѫ2ˑu+l5:O ku1-925|~-#yބ SAw9O;'ewMl&B_[IN@GsO53RB>^RML5k3$_y4p*=`^u X< a-uוcrJK:`Ӱz5".D0llӧŪbYbM?4(0[ aհ53o/ P؞ m'Ҋ&HϵbT5ݷA[&VТZQ0QzPƦ$.rR vJ#i35T/0&e6ۖa.̀8.g+^*Q4c?vbL#.{5Ӗ9VR٨QلN]@i-w7e 煅~j\ƂZрU~Cb c۟QŅB˔w:/4TѲd׫yiG?HbNJT-rW `7sjZ=@םCv9IǢ,LY2w:j`,_8iD\KXdvp4autgK`i*Ŗ.o :!NRcdAbDjXõ6\Xe vTBI{Mn{9 v1+ڧDlaQLڟEwsfRp!pgOa_n;T)NumΖm;/VK2N#9XG X }'#~ĭoyڎc0W+t÷'"`e' }=F:fofDw5ekφRa΋Ok_W 8g%J`C ;-LۣlW cWiY_-#ꌌ0[Y9KOcħlW |Yw9Oh78| i-{3ɥ,/m ?W7ϻ7=)Z.rU24#7D *ui MeNK[C}dMc=m)#p~zޟn=Vz#o3x[ Boaw.E3΅g`>AJAm\ đ#(-l`&@{P׾W,DE4) sb:kpҐ{zQ}w,µ>aҐkSP)wKbLx7SQ;. 9Z PB_@I81Y~  |(uB&QuN9 Χ'Թ8j `Wu;4h( fw#sNJ{sܺ^ guj#&t)0ʌC`f%*;ט鐆kaE?z sJʷ* n1z/+ތb pX ͔ s"9wWk;ʾQ">qKozYAGPWD9J;MK}NMX[o@=_u%>ҽl[w."<=\st`"pWF|pfgt Q~%~x!QxJC{3NQ0<^%n%ҽFmll9E09 i릗ᄾ|PjBa5lj~t-UZPG_ {cEVƕ& '--O-]s9Ox?,}s.פ<%mq% }HvzWdW%{}x;ÈaԢfL dO =&h]:sY҄Vn>*`cwi L82s=$ggHF9X"ChO=g|FHmf$vܜ0q,wYXOVV +q6׷#Z[rw=`@L r7}zV\ᴓ0e"}*='u*ENbVج^ כÖ)T޴v6M^r( $Jd0`I*zL>jGlf5|1sH]MNFփsdkHuhKu$tg[fl-]n G}+6ko;N"ғ=q0:kbHWd@ f!XjM8 .X;ORތ;g>ވڑdY5j,R3anJBE;`WVi8kظMsRT3c4eg5@J;xnO1XT |Iq3q(X7~ڔSfv&ETE C%';h4il'ؑ=.Dw"~c,tS\הp7ׂꄒG b" ~%Bn~󞂝zNz>pYɔYx&k?+)u@P=&C̪ij{zcx lmi>i:i]9S6;홴^v;(=-sA3F44:lC6%|3;3 dz}5~>jw< !7K莓^nc{N±@{CNBPqbA#!m4ZU'At&{v,Tc84Z#YBMȄ8Nx d %Y&y^&5[ZFz!F̵]r7wMҝ^QI:cgWW'IPBOYțr.);r(Dch\I9xaS?D6 L,jc:>Un_Zc_\QFZϧM0[q:mI |.B~9Ҡ)=FӈAz/wt(L#wkѺM^:2Hkvv޼ >ns#90L$+fˌ t̿@T9D]d PQܴe{GbznGHWJ#%3ܛvl[E^|Ceft <2ӚW"XH3xVT0K6[Ep*<ېy gdr h/60}iݢ chynS̓`702XbMQ' o[0[Xhs9? Z%]KL.b=1c4w1]rfP}m{-ӷZ7ڶovPptVġA{n\6I|Z!n1ӵ $rqnWBJ$-msnXTk -GrsHzf2Z@ё+םPw{/Eql6ܟ{Jv~GLѫMQ֋vHeU#kNJ,6\")Cte` ZnbJR+Z(E;D:Ye'KR#JL)d| 'Vuk7-K] 2uN֡@q{A%P.$8@Ѥ
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1