Utopian communities of the 1970s used to be the butt of jokes but they are offer important lessons for sustainable living.
"I had done a long Buddhist meditation retreat, and that made me look for a spiritual community — not just an ordinary lefty [community]", adds Michael, who joined Bodhi Farm in 1978 and is the current resident caretaker of the community garden .
"I didn't really have plans," he admits,"I just sort of launched into it and problem-solved as I went along." But ingenuity seems to be Michael's forte; he simply excavated underneath the structure and restumped it that way.
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