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	Back to the land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the back-to-the-land movement was not strictly part of the 1960s counterculture movement, the two movements had some overlap in participation.
		There was also a segment within the movement who already had a familiarity with rural life and farming, who already had many skills, and who wanted land of their own on which they could demonstrate that organic farming (rather than conventional) could be made practical and economically successful.
		The worldwide ecovillage movement, while not yet of a scale to be called a "wave," has both urban and rural components that aim at building sustainable village cultures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Back_to_the_land (1762 words)

	Earth Meanders: Back to the Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If land is to continue providing humans their habitat, a profound shift is needed in how we relate to land and all nature.
		In areas where land is managed as gardens, there is great potential to create agricultural ecosystems that are resilient, stable and sustainable, and which are integrated with natural ecosystems.
		I was raised there by parents that had gone back to the land to homestead.
	earthmeanders.blogspot.com /2004/07/back-to-land.html (987 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS Back From the Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first movement, which happened in mainly in the 1970s, was energized by political instability, an iconoclastic culture, worries about food safety and energy shortages, and the young generation’s weariness with consumption and commercialization.
		Eleanor Agnew aims to show that while the back-to-the-land movement had some noble motivations—a sense of environmentalism, a yearning to live close to the land, and a militant rejection of materialism—the participants of the movement had romanticized country life.
		Back From the Land is an odd book—part history, part memoir, and structured mainly on the stringing together of anecdotes, with some supplemental facts, figures, and cultural analysis to fill out the narrative.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/review.asp?id=4058 (575 words)

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		The primary goal of the Catholic Land Movement was to provide skills,education, and, in the best conditions, financial aid to those families who were committed to an integrally Catholic life and who would produce food and primary goods ú within a community grounded in faith ú for their own sustenance.
		Vincent McNabb, among others, was convinced that without that movement, Catholic family life would be eroded and finally dislodged, due to the unnatural environment of the cities and the fact that in urban life a man’s work is in one place and his home and family in another.
		As a practical realization of all of those truths and more, the Catholic Land Movement stands as a model for the modern man who wishes to be radical in his re-assessment of the modern economic system, and in his efforts to get to the root of the problem.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/04Feb/feb9bks.htm (1112 words)

	Stormfront White Nationalist Community - View Single Post - Back To The Land - by Jost Turner
		Back To The Land - by Jost Turner
		By the early 1970's there was a growing movement among these social drop-outs to go "back to the land", advocating self- sufficiency on the land, free from modern society's support, living simply like our ancestors.
		We advocate a new back to the land movement.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showpost.php?p=647617&postcount=1 (1260 words)

	localis(z)ation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the 1970’s there was a ‘back to the land’ movement, hippies moved out of urban environments into the ‘countryside’.
		When the hippies headed back to the land they brought a belief system with them that was often at odds with that of the communities they moved into.
		The hippies who went back to the land in the seventies were often highly intelligent and hard working, land was relatively cheap so that now many of the communes that survived are land owning and relatively financially secure.
	www.headmap.org /book/localisation/communes.htm (1036 words)

	American Young People Go Back To The Land
		Some are going back to the land to escape corporate culture, farming specialists say.
		But Vermont, with its limited land mass and tendency toward smaller farming plots, is at the forefront of the movement.
		The movement is different from the 1960s swell of back-to-the-earth hippies who piled into Vermont to escape urban unrest and the Vietnam War.
	www.rense.com /general65/land.htm (1060 words)

	The Hitchhikers Guide To The 60s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although often overlooked as an influential movement in the sixties, the modern environmental movement found its roots in the flurry of activism of that decade.
		The strength of the environmental movement of the late sixties came from its incredibly diverse base of activists.
		By the middle of the seventies, the maturation of the environmental movement had coincided approximately with the maturation of the baby boomers.
	www.history.pomona.edu /RLW/99id1s27/html/roots-back.html (2783 words)

	UNESCO Courier: Art's back-to-the-land movement - creating new links between space, time and spectator - Ephemeral Art
		Such imposingly large works have to be explored by spectators, who are prompted by their movement in space to look afresh at how sculpture relates to the movements of their own bodies.
		The distinctive feature of land art is this use of earth (or sand, rock, or wood) on natural sites, which then become components of the sculpture, or even the sculpture itself, as in Heizer's Double Negative (1969).
		A distinction should also be made between land art and other forms of intervention in the natural world, many of them more recent, such as the work of Nils-Udo, Bob Verschueren and Andy Goldsworthy, who practise what might be called vegetable art in that they often work with flowers, bark and leaves.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1996_Dec/ai_19090930 (1038 words)

	Northern Express
		In the late '70s, I got bit by the "Back to the Land" movement bug and decided it would be a great idea to move way out in the country on my own small farmette, far from the madding crowd.
		Our version of Green Acres was a house that fit the definition of "ramshackle" on two acres of land on a dirt road, blessed with several cherry and apple trees and soil so rich you could feed a village in Africa with the bounty of its garden.
		It's a worthy effort and one that fits the zeitgeist of our time, but in my own experience, the desire to move back to the city has to spring from your heart, possibly after discovering that life out in the boondocks or a suburban-style subdivision isn't as swell as it's cracked up to be.
	www.northernexpress.com /editorial/random.asp?id=317 (1100 words)

	MOFGA - The MOF&G - September 2004 - The Back-to-the-Land Movement in Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The land had been a large dairy farm that went under in the ‘80s and hadn't been working for almost eight years when the men arrived to find it covered with marabou.
		The government decided that their land would be better used as a municipal airport for the growing suburb.
		In the hills the land was grey and dusty red, and palms flourished with such hardwoods as grey and stooped algorrobo.
	www.mofga.org /mofgs04c.html (3128 words)

	CSIndy: Back to the Ranch (April 18, 2002)
		Many critics of grazing and grazing leases on public lands argue that those lands should be leased by environmental groups and left to return to their natural states.
		Large numbers of cattle are set out on a small piece of land for a short period of time, effectively loosening the ground with their hooves, making it arable and open to new seeds, and laying dead plant matter or mulch on top of it.
		"The land needs to be disturbed, needs for the crust in the bare areas to be broken and the ungrazed standing grass removed and laid on the ground as mulch, by hooves," he explained.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2002-04-18/cover.html (3459 words)

	Terry Silber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Silber was the rarest of individuals: A member of the counterculture's back-to-the-earth movement who actually had the grit to make a living off the land.
		She shared her experiences in ''A Small Farm in Maine,'' an unsentimental look at the rural life that became a must-read for urbanites contemplating a move back to the land.
		She wrote about the joy of holding a baby bird, nursing a butterfly back to health, and seeing a double-rainbow so vivid she was frightened.
	www.hedgehoghillfarm.com /terry_silber.htm (652 words)

	New Pioneers: The Back-To-The Land Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future:0271016213:Jeffrey Jacob:eCampus.com
		Since the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of urban North Americans have given up their city or suburban homes to move "back to the land".
		After examining the experiences of the back-to-the-country people who live on the margins of a postindustrial society, Jacob creates a clearer appreciation of the preconditions necessary to translate the idea of sustainable living into concrete action on a societywide scale.
		While New Pioneers describes an important social movement, it also shows how far a group of highly motivated individuals and families can go, by themselves, in breaking away from the prevailing consumer culture.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0271016213 (192 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		To begin with, in order to make the book have a pointed-enough thesis, she has to ignore or downplay a much larger number of folk who went back to the land but didn’t fail.
		The point of going back to the land was not to escape from civilization but to rebuild it according to the nature of human beings, for the sake of their moral and spiritual perfection.
		Going back to the land, therefore, was taken to be in accordance with that great dictum of St. Thomas that grace does not destroy nature but builds upon it.
	www.crisismagazine.com /june2005/book3.htm (941 words)

	Jeffery Carl Jacob: New Pioneers
		He traces the development of the movement and identifies seven different kinds of back-to-the-lander: the weekender, country romantic, purist, country entrepreneur, pensioner, micro-farmer, and apprentice.
		From over 1,300 survey responses, interviews, and in-depth case studies, at both the regional and national levels, of representative back-to-the-landers, Jacob analyzes their values, use of appropriate technology, family division of labor on their acreages, and predisposition toward environmental activism.
		Jacob finds that back-to-the-landers for the most part are not completely independent of the mainstream economy, and consequently, their lives do reflect the contradictions between the available conveniences of a high-technology culture and the movement's goals of self-reliant labor.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-01621-3.html (566 words)

	This is Satya \| Back to the Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For a lot of people who went back to the land in the 1960s, it was a temporary experimentÑthe pursuit of a mystical experience in nature or a rejection of the government, or some combination of quite a lot of complex impulses.
		One of the important things I saw is that a lot of people who went back to the land in the 1960s, did it in a very strict, rigorous way, not unlike the way people convert to a new religion or experience a rebirth.
		This didn't happen so much with Helen and Scott--they remained fairly rigorous, although Helen mellowed in her older age after Scott died and was not quite as rigorous in some of the practices as they were when they were together.
	www.montelis.com /satya/backissues/apr98/gould.html (2184 words)

	definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The back-to-the-land movement was a social movement based around the idea of living a self-sufficient life close to nature.
		It was characterized by the idea that everyday life is methodically practiced and based on a set of moral values or choices.
		These parameters were self-imposed; members of the back-to-the-land movement were limiting themselves at a time when it became clear that contemporary American culture put few limits on consumerism.
	cr.middlebury.edu /es/altenergylife/definition.htm (197 words)

	Book Review: Carrying Water as a Way of Life by Linda Tatelbaum
		In 1977, late by her own admission for the hippie back-to-the-land movement, Linda Tatelbaum moved to 72 scrub-wood acres in Maine.
		The basic texts of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement were Thoreau’s Walden and Helen and Scott Nearing’s Living the Good Life.
		For one thing, he picked a nice chunk of land nobody was using right then and squatted on it.
	www.futurenet.org /article.asp?id=939 (1154 words)

	Natural Life Magazine #56 - Back to the Land, 25 Years Later
		However, then, to pluck a sweet carrot from the earth and to witness a wet baby goat as it dropped from its patient mother in birth were privileges that made me feel blessed.
		Neither of us realized that what he really needed was a breather, a chance to step back from this steamrolling, self-propelled lifestyle we had created, a chance to find out who he was.
		When we got back, we considered building a small cabin on the farthest edge of the farm for one of us to live in.
	www.life.ca /nl/56/land.html (2383 words)

	Classroom Activities
		Immerse yourself in one of the generations that came of age in the 20th century and imagine, discuss and reflect how their lives were shaped by new technology.
		The people who went "back to the land" were making a life choice as well as a statement.
		One group will be those who choose to go "back to the land." The other will be those who were against this movement for one reason or another.
	www.hfmgv.org /museum/ypit/classroom/actboom.html (641 words)

	Quotemeister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The slogan "three acres and a cow" dates back to the 1880's and was usually associated with Jesse Collings, a Devonshire MP and radical agrarian who promoted small holdings and land allocations.
		However, the American Chesterton Society has recently learned that the quotation was first used by Eli Hamshire, a rustic philosopher who lived in the village of Ewhurst in Surrey, England.
		The phrase continued to be associated with the "Back to the Land" movement after the turn of the century, and eventually with Chesterton's Distributists in the 1920's.
	www.chesterton.org /qmeister2/3acrescow.htm (210 words)

	Tufts Magazine Spring 2004
		The “back to the land” movement was “the lunatic fringe” of society when Merri Swid Morgan, then in graduate school at Harvard, joined a commune.
		Looking back, she says her impulse for rural living sprang from wanting “something much realer” than society offered.
		Thirty years ago, West Virginians whose roots go back to the 1700s welcomed us newcomers with open hearts, and the other young people who, like me, moved into this area, have become family.
	www.tufts.edu /alumni/magazine/spring2004/features/coverMorgan.html (371 words)

	Tufts Magazine Spring 2004
		Today, a new generation of alumni bring their own passions and ideals to the cause; they are taking advantage of broader opportunities to embellish on a shared empathy for the Earth.
		For Abby Slosek, A99, the connection to the land runs in the family—for four generations, the Sloseks have worked the fields of Moors End Farm on Nantucket Island, well known for its fresh vegetables and flowers.
		Many blisters later, they had cleared the land, built a barn, and planted their first crops.
	www.tufts.edu /alumni/magazine/spring2004/features/coverNewGen.html (1444 words)

	One Woman's Perspective
		I first read Laura’s books when I was only a little older than James, and I think that early exposure to the romance of pioneer life, combined with the "back-to-the-land" movement in the late Sixties and early Seventies, contributed to my desire to live close to, and in harmony with, nature.
		At one point, I attempted to turn part of our back yard into a garden, but, like most of my projects (from sewing to learning to crochet to trying origami), once the initial excitement wore off, it simply became another chore to occupy time better used for a newer, more exciting endeavor.
		And the next house I buy will be out in the country, with plenty of land.
	www.vegsource.com /articles/kira9.htm (999 words)

	Dr. Frank's What's-it: Back to the Land
		Neither did I. In case you don't know, a modulation in a pop song arrangement is where the song changes key at certain strategic points, often near the end.
		There is, I gather, an improbable, loose-knit underground movement of anti-modulation revolutionaries, with a language all their own, and I'm not hip enough to feature what they're putting down.
		Another song is Don't Back Down (I know it through the Queers record), which I HATE because its alllllllll modulation.
	www.doktorfrank.com /archives/002680.html (1936 words)

	Plugging in to the Wind and Sun (News) Rose Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Letting go of electric appliances and other modern conveniences is a form of environmental asceticism that most people aren't willing to undertake.
		But unlike those in the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s, not everyone who moves off the grid has to do away with all, or even any, modern accoutrements.
		Among them is John Schaeffer's aforementioned Real Goods, founded in 1978 to meet the needs of participants in the original back-to-the-land movement.
	www.utne.com /webwatch/2005_209/news/11734-1.html (422 words)

	Vermont Back-to-the-Land Annotated Bibliography
		Borsodi, a follower of the ideas of Henry George, was an early back-to-the-land advocate.
		The School for Living relocated to Pennsylvania and has continued up to the present under the guidance of Borsodi ' s,associate, Mildred Loomis (til her death in 1986), as a source of information and encouragement for new generations of back-to-the-landers.Their current, publication is called "Green Revolution".
		These two cut-and--paste collections of articles came out (and were distributed by Penguin) at the peak of the communal movement.
	www.uvm.edu /~jmoore/sixtiesonline/vtbacklandbib.html (1554 words)

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