Hippie commune

Hippie commune | 1960s

What was it like to grow up on America's largest commune? In the late 60's, 320 San Francisco hippies took a caravan of 60 buses across the country & founded "The Farm" in 1971 on 1,750 acres in the backwoods of TN. It reached a peak of 1500 people, all who took a vow of poverty to live communally, self sufficient off the grid. During the 70's and early 80's, hundreds of children grew up knowing only this reality. Living in tents and school buses, knowing nothing of TV, packaged food, meat…

Desert life

by Raven MoonRaven For years I didn’t like the term “commune”. I was involved in the sixties and afterwards it seemed to have the connotations of a “crash pad” and a …

What was it like to grow up on a commune? That’s a question I heard a lot after emerging into society from America’s largest commune. In the late 60′s, 320 San Francisco hippies took a caravan of …

What was it like to grow up on a commune? That’s a question I heard a lot after emerging into society from America’s largest commune. In the late 60′s, 320 San Francisco hippies took a caravan of …

Man, it was so cool back in the 60s, the heyday of hippiedom. The peace movement, the music, mind-altering explorations, and free love, man! Being a hippie was far out. Cut to the 21st century

Eye-Opening Photographs Of Life On Hippie Communes