Meet Oregon’s oldest intentional community, Alpha Farm | Oregon Field Guide from the Archives

Alpha Farm started during the colorful chapter of American history when a counterculture generation went “back to the land” and experimented with communal ways of living. But while many communes of the 1960s and ’70s failed or faded, Alpha Farm has managed to hang on. In fact, it is the longest continuously running intentional community in Oregon.

In this story, that originally broadcast in 2018, Oregon Field Guide pays a visit to learn how the community managed to endure.

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