The early days of the Caravan Farm Theatre
Theatre and music were part of Nick Hutchinson’s genetic make-up. His mother was the award-winning actor, Dame Peggy Ashcroft and his father, Jeremy Hutchinson was …
The origins of Shuswap’s most successful intentional community – The Caravan Farm
It was 2 am in the late fall of 1973, and Paul Kirby and Nans Kelder with three other adventurers were alternating riding and leading …
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Shuswap’s first intentional community
There are few low elevation parcels of private land in the Shuswap that are as inhospitable as the north end of Adams Lake, where winters …
The back-to-the-landers were an amorphous bunch
Terry Allan Simmons is known for many of his achievements, including organizing the British Columbia chapter of the Sierra Club, helping to organize the “Don’t …
The saga of the Dirty Dirt Farm Co-op
Out of all the Shuswap intensive community experiments in the 1970s, the Dirty Dirt Farm Co-op was likely one of the briefest. It began when …