Alicia Bay Laurel’s manual Living on the Earth serves as a guide for young people looking to live off the land on the Wheeler Ranch Commune in Sonoma, California. The book sells more than 350,000 copies. The same year, Jane Shuttleworth co-founds the magazine Mother Earth News, another publication that helped shape the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s.

“Books of the Times.” The New York Times. March 25, 1971. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/25/archives/a-red-fox-and-a-bay-laurel.html

Raymond Mungo. “Cooking and carpentry and sewing and astrology.” The New York Times, March 21, 1971. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/25/archives/a-red-fox-and-a-bay-laurel.html?searchResultPosition=3

“The Plowboy Interview: John Shuttleworth”. Issue 32, March/April 1975. Web.archive.org. 2006-02-19.

Photograph of Wheeler’s Ranch from Bob Fitch Photography Archive at Stanford. “Chopping Firewood,” by Bob Fitch, 1969-1970. https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/catalog/hk445pk8902