The Farm is an intentional community based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth. It was founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin, and 300 spiritual seekers from Haight-Ashbury and San Francisco.

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Odd title. Most communities are intentional.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think it has a somewhat specific meaning.

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Wow, that's even odder. Thanks.

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I think the term might come out of the commune type stuff (like this place) that was going on, that people were trying to figure out, etc.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This was 100% commie all the way. They didn't use money. They gave away food to the hungry. It failed because humans aren't like that and their open borders policy led to about 40 working men supporting a population of about 1000 useless eaters.

Here's what it was like, according to the people who were there. https://kk.org/mt-files/writings/why_we_left_the_farm.pdf

When asked about why she left, Leela Pratt said, “We were so poor we had nothing to eat at times but corn meal, buckwheat flour and black-eyed peas. I didn’t want to be dirt poor and living in Tennessee any longer,”

https://blog.richmond.edu/fysutopiasfall2015/2015/12/15/final-research-report-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-farm/

“I found a gum wrapper on the ground and I smelled it for a week until the smell went away…because that’s how wanting I was…of anything besides soybeans and tortillas”