Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Understood, Gloria. For any who might be interested, the Rainbow Family
gatherings are still happening
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html . Also
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/related.html .
I've never been, but I have a son who has. I suspect a great many
ex-hippies are living simply across rural America and growing their own -
food that is. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/6/2007 at 1:04 PM Gloria Baikauskas wrote:

>Not all of us lived in Haight-Ashbury, or in California.  I was going to
>college at the time.  The rent on the commune wasn't free.  We had to pay
>the rent with jobs.  We had to eat because we didn't get free handouts of
>food.  We did, however, feed those who didn't have food when it came up.  
>   
>  PBS makes it sound like it only all happened in San Francisco.  It
>didn't....and it may have died out there and turned into a disaster of
>humankind....but that didn't happen that way everywhere.  
>   
>  It was a mindset......that connectedness.  The idea that we should do no
>harm to others, nor to the world we lived in.  
>   
>  I have grown up a lot since then....but much of what I learned then has
>stayed with me.  Especially the idea that doing the right thing is more
>important than doing the easy thing.  
>   
>  In time even that commune became corrupted because kids from all over
>the country would show up with their idea of what that lifestyle was
>supposed to be.  We all left....some of them stayed.  I would imagine they
>lived that lifestyle until the rent was not paid long enough .....then
>maybe moved on elsewhere.  I really don't know.   The media did quite a
>bit of damage in that way...much as they do now.  They clouded it with
>drugs, the great unwashed masses and free love.  It wasn't only
>that....and really not even all of that.  
>   
>  Gloria
>
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