back-to-landers
Urban exodus settlers
Back-to-landers are people who leave urban or suburban life to pursue rural self-sufficiency—farming, homesteading, living off the land.
The term emerged from the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 70s, when many young Americans rejected consumer culture for simpler agrarian lives: The valley filled up with back-to-landers growing their own food and building cabins.
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
- communesShared-living communities
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- 1970sFourth decade, twentieth century
agrarianism · alternative lifestyle · urban exodus · New Left · environmentalism · anti-consumerism · DIY ethos · social movement
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
- subsistence farmingGrowing food for household
- off-grid livingSelf-reliant existence without utilities
- vegetable gardensCultivated areas for edible plants
- canningAirtight food preservation
preserving · woodstove · hand tools · well water · composting · foraging · hunting · fishing
Depending on oneself alone
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- simplicityLack of complexity
- anti-materialismOpposition to prioritizing possessions
- ecological awarenessRecognition of environmental interdependence
localism · independence · frugality · authenticity · community · cooperation · stewardship · slow living
homesteading
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
- communesShared-living communities
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
1970s · agrarianism · alternative lifestyle · urban exodus · New Left · environmentalism · anti-consumerism · DIY ethos · social movement · utopian
homesteading
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
- subsistence farmingGrowing food for household
- off-grid livingSelf-reliant existence without utilities
- vegetable gardensCultivated areas for edible plants
canning · preserving · woodstove · hand tools · well water · composting · foraging · hunting · fishing · beekeeping
self-reliance
Depending on oneself alone
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- simplicityLack of complexity
- anti-materialismOpposition to prioritizing possessions
ecological awareness · localism · independence · frugality · authenticity · community · cooperation · stewardship · slow living · mindfulness
- subculturespunk, punks, hippie, goth, hippies
- eco-activistseco-warriors, eco-warrior, eco warriors, climate activists, tree hugger
- recluseshermits, recluses, solitaries, loners, shut-ins
- Utopiansutopians, idealists, visionaries, dreamers, communitarians
back-to-landersurbanites
Metropolitan area residents
suburbanites · city dwellers · yuppies · cosmopolitans · commuters
back-to-landerstechnophiles
Lovers of modern devices
technocrats · early adopters · transhumanists · digital natives · futurists
back-to-landersconsumerists
Advocates of buying culture
consumers · materialists · careerists · white-collar workers · office workers
back, lander, land, lands, landed, landing, landings, landless, landlord