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Electric Tofu

Electric Tofu

FromGravy


Electric Tofu

FromGravy

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Aug 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In the early 1970s, two hundred hippies from San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood resettled in rural Tennessee. They founded a vegetarian commune and agricultural operation called The Farm. With help from their neighbors and a psychedelic soundtrack from their house band, the back-to-landers got their social experiment off the ground and produced some of the first vegan cookbooks and commercial soy products in the United States. The Farm outlived the Flower Power era to become a model of environmental sustainability and community farming that is still thriving nearly 50 years later. Producer Betsy Shepherd tells how tempeh, experimental rock, midwifery, and the antinuclear movement grew from a seed of West Coast counterculture planted in Southern soil.   
Released:
Aug 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Gravy is a podcast from the Southern Foodways Alliance that tells new and complicated stories about the changing American South.