Comments on: Summertime jungle http://farmola.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/hunkering-down-in-the-jungle/ a founding member of America's largest, longest-lasting, working commune tells his history Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:55:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: A quest for land « Farmola http://farmola.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/hunkering-down-in-the-jungle/#comment-223 A quest for land « Farmola Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:06:59 +0000 http://farmola.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-223 [...] *  NEXT> Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)The Shades of Blue [...] [...] *  NEXT> Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)The Shades of Blue [...]

]]> By: Judith http://farmola.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/hunkering-down-in-the-jungle/#comment-72 Judith Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:31:27 +0000 http://farmola.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-72 welcome to the fireside circle,Anna Banana. We all need to be patient with Clliff as the latest version of the tale unfolds; he's been working hard at supporting himself and his family. I'm really hoping that eventually Farmola appears as a book. There are some scholarly works by social scientists about the Farm (check Google or another good search engine) and a small volume of varied memoirs and commentary by Book Publishing Company, but thus far no one has told a personal history of the Farm's early collective years in such rich and honest detail. my ant, who was one of the eldest people on the Caravan (49 years old,with two grown sons older than most of Stephen's students at the time) and lasted eight months on the Farm in Tennessee, kept a journal of Caravan life that is probably somewhere in her son's house in Anchorage Alaska..she was thinking of publishing that too. it kind of slipped through my hands when I inherited her library after she died in 2001,almost exactly thirty years after the Caravan arrived in Tennessee. lotta changes since...that's what life is about. it sounds as though you;ve made a gret life foryourself and your children. SPiritualMidwifery was very influential fo me too welcome to the fireside circle,Anna Banana. We all need to be patient with Clliff as the latest version of the tale unfolds; he’s been working hard at supporting himself and his family. I’m really hoping that eventually Farmola appears as a book. There are some scholarly works by social scientists about the Farm (check Google or another good search engine) and a small volume of varied memoirs and commentary by Book Publishing Company, but thus far no one has told a personal history of the Farm’s early collective years in such rich and honest detail. my ant, who was one of the eldest people on the Caravan (49 years old,with two grown sons older than most of Stephen’s students at the time) and lasted eight months on the Farm in Tennessee, kept a journal of Caravan life that is probably somewhere in her son’s house in Anchorage Alaska..she was thinking of publishing that too. it kind of slipped through my hands when I inherited her library after she died in 2001,almost exactly thirty years after the Caravan arrived in Tennessee.

lotta changes since…that’s what life is about.

it sounds as though you;ve made a gret life foryourself and your children. SPiritualMidwifery was very influential fo me too

]]> By: annabanana http://farmola.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/hunkering-down-in-the-jungle/#comment-71 annabanana Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:49:53 +0000 http://farmola.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-71 hey man, thanks for laying all this down:) if i wasnt 7 years old in 70 i would have joined ya, my brother went to monday night class and hung out with ya all in golden gate park and partook of peyote tea, but he was teaching grad school 2 like stephen and had just been offered tenure and took it instead of following his heart, his girlfriend and the caravan, his daughter & son would have been much happier on the farm then in ny & cali. i would have been 2 anita;s girls were lucky they got to grow up there, my happiest times have been spent on my own organic 22acre farm, making it happen on my own with my little girls, spiritual midwifery being my bible and my guide ina may:) what happened during and after the bust? i know about stephen being in the big house & making friends & spreading peace & joy & the farm philosophy, i read about his needed plastic workboots and being given unlimited priviledges in the kitchen when the warden thought he would starve because he was vegan (everything was cooked w lard apprently) tell us what is next! we are like happy, anxious children reading a cool bedtime story:) thanks!!!!! hey man, thanks for laying all this down:) if i wasnt 7 years old in 70 i would have joined ya, my brother went to monday night class and hung out with ya all in golden gate park and partook of peyote tea, but he was teaching grad school 2 like stephen and had just been offered tenure and took it instead of following his heart, his girlfriend and the caravan, his daughter & son would have been much happier on the farm then in ny & cali. i would have been 2
anita;s girls were lucky they got to grow up there, my happiest times have been spent on my own organic 22acre farm, making it happen on my own with my little girls, spiritual midwifery being my bible and my guide ina may:)
what happened during and after the bust? i know about stephen being in the big house & making friends & spreading peace & joy & the farm philosophy, i read about his needed plastic workboots and being given unlimited priviledges in the kitchen when the warden thought he would starve because he was vegan (everything was cooked w lard apprently) tell us what is next!
we are like happy, anxious children reading a cool bedtime story:) thanks!!!!!

]]> By: Judith http://farmola.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/hunkering-down-in-the-jungle/#comment-70 Judith Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:55:36 +0000 http://farmola.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-70 yeah,I wondered too about the alternative mode-of-transmission hepatitis hypothesis. even some of Ina May's fairly recent writings us the "we were city folks and were downstream from someone's outhouse" and it makes sense...what was then called infectious hepatitis and is now known as Hep A is spread by fecal-oral transmission, and other groups of hippies scrounging for food and/or drinking water suffered similar outbreaks. we had a few such,'round the same time in California at some of the communes. so I too await more news of what else might have happened. yeah,I wondered too about the alternative mode-of-transmission hepatitis hypothesis. even some of Ina May’s fairly recent writings us the “we were city folks and were downstream from someone’s outhouse” and it makes sense…what was then called infectious hepatitis and is now known as Hep A is spread by fecal-oral transmission, and other groups of hippies scrounging for food and/or drinking water suffered similar outbreaks. we had a few such,’round the same time in California at some of the communes.

so I too await more news of what else might have happened.

]]> By: Roan Carratu http://farmola.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/hunkering-down-in-the-jungle/#comment-69 Roan Carratu Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:10:08 +0000 http://farmola.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-69 Wow, man. That was long before I arrived at the Gate. Well, at least a year. I always heard the hep came from picking greens downstream from a leaky outhouse. What was the real bad news? You really got my curiosity gene buzzing. grin. Wow, man. That was long before I arrived at the Gate. Well, at least a year.

I always heard the hep came from picking greens downstream from a leaky outhouse. What was the real bad news? You really got my curiosity gene buzzing. grin.

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