From the 1960s to ’70s, some one million Americans, disillusioned with modern life, left their comfortable homes in cities and suburbs for a totally new way of living.
Through the Back-to-the-Land movement, communes sprung up around rural parts of the country, with a large concentration in Northern California, on land that was cheap and easy to buy. People built dwellings from salvaged materials, grew their own food, and relied on alternative energy sources. These actions greatly influenced how we think about sustainability today, and laid the groundwork for more modern homesteading lifestyles.
