Matthew Ingram
2025
Matthew Ingram is an author and filmmaker. His previous book “Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness” (2020) looked at health methodologies that emerged from the hippie era like meditation, Macrobiotic food, and the use of psychedelics in psychiatry. His latest book, “The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture” (2025) explores the counterculture’s adoption of agriculture. He runs the website SickVeg.com.
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Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture
“The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture” is the story of the hippies’ love affair with agriculture. Starting with the counterculture’s discovery of Rudolf Steiner and the Organic movement, it then examines the harbingers of Self-sufficiency. At the book’s core is a study of the back-to-the-land movement. In chapters on Findhorn, Masanobu Fukuoka, […]