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Looking back over that last piece on Socialism and Subsistence I didn't settle on how these ideas related to my study of the counterculture.

Both of my books, "Retreat" (2020) and "The Garden" (2025) had an aspect of left-wing politics to them.

Head over here to read David Holmgren's review of my book "The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture."

Alicia Bay Laurel is the celebrated polymath - artist, author, and musician - who found international fame as the visionary communard behind the classic self-sufficiency book "Living on the Earth".

I drove down to Knepp yesterday with my friend Mags.

A field of Einkorn and Emmer Wheat I photographed growing at FarmEd.

Twenty years ago at my blog WOEBOT, in December 2005, I made a list of 100 records.

Great interview with Eliot Coleman at The Real Organic Project for his new book, "The Self-Fed Farm."

I've absolutely loved Chris Smaje's previous two books.

Just when I thought I had read all the books by John Seymour that were pertinent to me I came across another.

You'd have to have a hard heart not to chuckle at F.C.

A clean version of the presentation I gave at Capel Manor College, Groundswell, Green Gathering, and The Organic Growers Gathering.

I recently harvested my tomato crop and turned it into chutney.

I’ve mentioned it before that one of the quirks of researching history is that you are usually only presented with information which draws you further into the past.

My research for “Retreat” was pretty exhaustive, however one thing you find researching a particular era is that all the references within books and among the rest of the material (interviews, articles, documentaries etc) only relate to then-contemporary…

Jay Stevens in his kitchen in Vermont in 2022.

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To visit William Robinson’s oval vegetable garden at Gravetye Manor, we had to eat an expensive lunch, because the hotel that runs the site doesn’t let people wander around otherwise.

Sadhguru's Save Soil Article.

This is my third and final JADAM post.

Interview on NTS

Article for The Quietus Addicted to Humus: Matthew Ingram on the Revolutionary Potential of Compost Matthew Ingram, aka Woebot, is an author and researcher in countercultural history.

Article for WWOOF Writing in a postscript to his classic book “The Fat of the Land” in 1974, self-sufficiency guru John Seymour proposed of his smallholding at Fachongle Isaf, “If there were enough people on it — enough hands — I believe that our seventy…

The Organic Counterculture It seems like everybody wants to be the “real” rebel these days, ever since the idea of alternative culture proved to be the hottest-selling ticket in town.