Get Back, Stay Back

We were featured in a new book about the revival of the back-to-the-land movement.

In Get Back Stay Back, Portland, Maine-based writer Joseph F. Conway sets out in search of something better and simpler in a place beyond the hustle and bustle of modern life. Tracing the evolution of the back-to-the-land movement from the late 1960s to today, he finds a new generation of farmers and homesteaders picking up where their parents left off.

The stories of 13 families in the pastures and backwoods of Maine play out in two acts—parents dropping out of society and into extreme self-sufficiency and experimentation, and their kids who are now leading the charge to see what sustainability, local food and organic agriculture can do for the communities into which they were born.