back-to-the-land
Homesteading lifestyle movement
Back-to-the-land describes a movement or lifestyle rejecting urban industrial society in favor of rural self-sufficiency—growing food, raising animals, living simply.
The phrase typically modifies nouns: back-to-the-land movement, back-to-the-land ideals.
It peaked in the 1960s and 70s among counterculture adherents but resurfaces whenever people romanticize agrarian life or worry about societal collapse.
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
- communeShared-living community
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- 1970sFourth decade, twentieth century
intentional community · urban exodus · agrarianism · hippie · dropout · alternative lifestyle · simple living · pastoral
Without utility connections
- woodstoveEnclosed firebox for heating
- cabinSimple wooden dwelling
- well waterUnderground drinking source
- solar panelsLight-converting power generators
outhouse · handmade · DIY · self-reliance · wool spinning · bread baking · soap making · candle making
Minimal means of living
- organic gardeningFarming without artificial additives
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- smallholdingSmall cultivated land parcel
- market gardenPlot growing produce for sale
crop rotation · heirloom seeds · composting · root cellar · canning · preserving · animal husbandry · chicken raising
homesteading
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
- communeShared-living community
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
1970s · intentional community · urban exodus · agrarianism · hippie · dropout · alternative lifestyle · simple living · pastoral · anti-consumerism
off-grid
Without utility connections
- woodstoveEnclosed firebox for heating
- cabinSimple wooden dwelling
- well waterUnderground drinking source
solar panels · outhouse · handmade · DIY · self-reliance · wool spinning · bread baking · soap making · candle making · foraging
subsistence
Minimal means of living
- organic gardeningFarming without artificial additives
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- smallholdingSmall cultivated land parcel
market garden · crop rotation · heirloom seeds · composting · root cellar · canning · preserving · animal husbandry · chicken raising · beekeeping
- simple livingsimple living, frugality, minimalism, decluttering, plain living
- rural livingfarmhouse, cottage, cabin, homesteading, country living
- agrarian policyagrarian reform, farm bills, farm bill, farm credit, tenant rights
- anti-modernismLuddism, Luddite, technophobia, technophobe, anti-technology
back-to-the-landurban
Pertaining to cities
urbanite · city living · metropolitan · suburban · cosmopolitan
back-to-the-landcorporate
Of or relating to companies
corporate ladder · consumerism · careerism · rat race · industrialism
back-to-the-landtechno-utopianism
Faith that innovation solves all
futurism · transhumanism · high-tech · Silicon Valley · digital nomad
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