Down on The Farm

The human dwellings on The Farm in Summertown Tennessee have progressed over the years, but they remain to be constructed out of materials and fashioned by techniques that are natural and harmonious with the residents’ surroundings and beliefs. The video posted on our groups blog is an excellent glimpse into the built landscape on The Farm, led by Albert Bates. In the early days structures on The Farm consisted of Buses, slab-wood shelters and polyvinyl lean-tos. Relying on materials acquired from dumps and salvage jobs, the typical housing typology on The Farm was a conglomerate of tents; scrap wood floors, rusty metal roofs and Styrofoam insulation. A full report on the The Farm’s “Technological Innovation in a Rural Intentional Community, 1971-1987” by Albert Bates can be found here

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John Roderick, is an Environmental Studies student at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This blog is an exploration into Ecovillage design.
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Down on The Farm

Apr 4 2009

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