The Morning Glory Farm Goes Back to the Land

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Photo by Rod MacDougall
Members of the Morning Glory Farm assist their neighbor in building a house. It took one day from start to finish.

The weather was perfect! Even the crying of the two car-sick children and an assortment of frayed adult tempers could do little to dampen the enthusiasm of visiting one of Ontario’s first rural hip communities.

Situated in northeastern Ontario, five rural communal farms have formed in the last year by young adults in search of life …. They have found it.

Along with a group of 11 Alternate Society members from Toronto, I spent five days living, working, and grooving on 100 acres known as Morning Glory Farm. The meals were an adventure in themselves: Apple pan dowdy, fresh-baked corn bread, soybean concoctions, natural cereal breakfasts, and many other wholesome, naturally delicious foods untainted by standard brands or general foods.

On arriving, we were amazed by the serene beauty of the scenery. Past glimmering lakes, brooding hills, fields that spoke of limitless and unfettered freedom, we drove. The children — made ill by miles of droning engine and slowly weaving blacktop — were now wide-eyed and breathless with smiles frozen on their faces in the excitement of their rural roller-coaster uphill, downhill ride.

After a comedy of wrong turns we found the splendor of Morning Glory Farm!

  • Published on Jan 1, 1970
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