back-to-land
Agrarian lifestyle movement
Back-to-land describes a movement or lifestyle centered on leaving urban or suburban areas to live more self-sufficiently in rural settings, typically involving farming, homesteading, or small-scale agriculture.
The term evokes 1960s and 70s counterculture, when many young people rejected mainstream society for simpler living: They joined the back-to-land movement after college.
It functions as an adjective modifying nouns like movement, lifestyle, or philosophy.
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
- communeShared-living community
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- rural exodusMass departure from countryside
simple living · agrarianism · intentional community · dropout · alternative lifestyle · 1970s · urban flight · DIY
Simple wooden dwelling
- farmsteadFarm with residence
- rural propertyLand in the countryside
- acreageAmount of land owned
- off-gridWithout utility connections
wood stove · well water · septic system · outbuildings · barn raising · hand-built · earthship · yurt
Small cultivated land parcel
- subsistence farmingGrowing food for household
- organic gardeningFarming without artificial additives
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- market gardenPlot growing produce for sale
livestock raising · crop rotation · composting · seed saving · heirloom varieties · animal husbandry · beekeeping · food production
homesteading
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
- communeShared-living community
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
rural exodus · simple living · agrarianism · intentional community · dropout · alternative lifestyle · 1970s · urban flight · DIY · sustainability
cabin
Simple wooden dwelling
- farmsteadFarm with residence
- rural propertyLand in the countryside
- acreageAmount of land owned
off-grid · wood stove · well water · septic system · outbuildings · barn raising · hand-built · earthship · yurt · timber frame
smallholding
Small cultivated land parcel
- subsistence farmingGrowing food for household
- organic gardeningFarming without artificial additives
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
market garden · livestock raising · crop rotation · composting · seed saving · heirloom varieties · animal husbandry · beekeeping · food production · hand tools
- Communescommunes, communal living, kibbutz, hippie commune, utopian communities
- countercultureflower power, flower children, free love, hippie communes, Summer of Love
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- revivalsrevivalism, resurgence, reawakening, rejuvenation, revitalization
back-to-landurban
Pertaining to cities
urbanization · city life · metropolitan · suburban · urban migration
back-to-landcorporate
Of or relating to companies
consumerism · careerism · corporate ladder · capitalism · consumer culture
back-to-landtechno-utopian
Faith in technological salvation
futurism · modernization · technological progress · transhumanism · smart city
back, land, backs, backed, backing, backings, lands, landed, landing