Soon to be a TV series.

The psychedelic '60s come alive in this multi-level history/memoir of a journalist assigned to cover anti-war demonstrations and the Grateful Dead, smoked marijuana, took LSD, went to Woodstock, and dropped out to live the story of the changing times and seek enlightenment - riding a powerful wave of energy that raised consciousness and shattered conventional paradigms around the world.

True tales of The Farm, an amazing 1,500-member hippie commune nestled in the backwoods of Tennessee. Enter what may seem another world - an audacious attempt to create a better way of living - an Earth-friendly, people-friendly, pacifist, eclectic, agrarian, vegan, spiritual community, cannabis church, and home-birthing center.

“Imagine all the people living life in peace.” (John Lennon)

That was us!

Hop aboard a hippie bus and journey with 300 New Age settlers on their way to Tennessee to begin a new life and a new lifestyle, a meaningful lifestyle the world can afford - to live collectively, build a town and live simple, live close to nature - a remarkable experiment in collective living as thousands of high-minded people with heart join forces, pool resources, and attempt to create a gracious, meaningful, sustainable lifestyle. The community grew to 1,500 built houses, soy dairy, home-birthing center, community FM radio station, and launched satellite communities around the world.

After a devastating 1976 earthquake in Guatemala, Melvyn worked with The Farm’s hippie Peace Corps, Plenty International, and Mayans building schools, clinics, and houses in remote mountain villages and a clinic for Mother Teresa in Guatemala City. For this and other humanitarian projects, The Farm was awarded the “alternative Nobel Prize”, the Swedish Right Livelihood Award.

Voluntary Peasants is also available as a 422-page paperback with 40 photos and includes the author’s backstory: Enlightenment: What’s It Good For. Voluntary Peasants paperback is available only at voluntarypeasants.com.