Talk:The Farm (Tennessee)

message: Claims that the Farm hosts 'famous midwives' and one of its founders was a 'mother of modern midwifery' must be sourced at the least, this looks like a very distinct POV. Certainly, there are probably other claimants to the throne of 'mother of modern midwifery?' Kit 03:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, they are famous.  As to the claim that Ina May Gaskin is the "mother of modern midwifery," that could be investigated further.  Keep in mind that midwifery appeared to have gone the way of the dodo by the mid 20th century.  There is no doubt that they brought it back to a new level of credibility—first with the counter culture and then, increasingly with the mainstream.  Having raised this, the ball is in your court to do the research.  I hate NPOV tags (preferring to do the work and edit accordingly), but this is your show.  So I would like you to look into this right away, please.  Sunray 06:15, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Hopefully the language is a bit less flamboyant now. If someone wants to reinsert the 'mother of modern midwifery' claim they can find a source and do it in a NPOV fashion. As it is expanded, this page needs sources for such claims. Kit 08:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Yes, I certainly agree that there should be more about the midwives of the Farm in this article. You can find sources for this in the Ina May Gaskin article. It's hard to find articles online that give good overview of Midwifery in the early days of the farm. Here's a link to the Vegetarian Times article "Mother of Midwifery", which gives some details (perhaps sufficient for The Farm article). If you need any help, let me know. Sunray (talk) 23:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: Consider the following:
*"The Midwife of modern midwifery: From her Tennessee commune, Ina May Gaskin almost single-handedly inspired-the rebirth of midwifery in this country"
:—Katie Allison Granju Salon.com Salon Brilliant Careers, June 1, 1999
*"Mother of midwifery: Ina May Gaskin hopes to birth a local movement of midwives" 
:—Carol Wiley Lorente Vegetarian Times , July 1995.
132.192.6.64 13:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mother of midwifery

message: I see a link for Lawerence Co. Just noting that the Farm is in Lewis Co. --jidanni
Summerville, the closest town, is in Lawrence. Can you provide a citation that it is in Lewis? Kit O'Connell (Todfox: user / talk / contribs) 11:03, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Note, the cite above is dead. Archived link here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930165354/http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=T082  Geoff |  Who, me? 17:17, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: And just to confuse things further, this link puts The Farm (Summertown, TN)  in Lawrence County per census data while this link has it in Lewis County. And the Wikipedia article on Summertown, TN lists The Farm as a noted local entity. However, the article does note that "Summertown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lawrence County, Tennessee with a small portion in both Lewis County and Maury County." Maybe everyone is correct? Geoff |  Who, me? 17:26, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lewis County 

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Added a technology section, since The Farm seemed to be quite vocal from the beginning about making technology work for them whenever possible. The section begs for more researched information about the "Appropriate Technology" and Alternate Energy themes, which historically seemed to have been an important factor in the philosophy of The Farm. This seemed to be somewhat of a departure from the typical hippie back-to-nature spiritual movement of the early 1970s. Also, it appears from some oral history, that they were into such things as the use of early portable reel-to-reel video tape for recording events, building of huge sound systems for concerts, recording studios, FM radio station WUTZ, etc. Sadly, the general impression is, that the whole article is somewhat haphazard, needs better formatting, and certainly cries for more cites. At this point, there are a multitude of books, newspaper, web, and media articles available for citation references on the subject of The Farm. Baleywik (talk) 19:11, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technology 

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message: The article doesn't mention farming as an activity at the Farm. Given the name and the passing mention of opening a vegetable store, it seems likely that there is/was some farming being done, but it would benefit the article to have more information on the type and scale of farming.Dialectric (talk) 10:50, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: They grew lots of soybeans, all of their vegetables, marijuana until the bust, and, notably, sorghum, for which they built a sorgum mill to make sorghum molassas, marketed through co-ops and health stores with the 'Ice Bean', under the label 'Old Beatnik'.  As the story goes, the plans for the mill were ordered from the Govt Printing Office catalog from the patent office application, but no one else had ever built one.  I no longer have the books, and 'The Farm Book' is out of print, but might be found in a library.  In early days, I think they may have used horse-drawn equipment, as photographs indicated, and that would be in line with 'self-sufficient' philosophy.  The 'Anniston Star,' once an excellent local newspaper in Anniston, AL, ran a feature article on The Farm, possibly a series, probably late 70's.  I no longer have my copy of that, as well, but they may have computerized their "morgue," if that's the correct term.  rags (talk) 11:25, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Farming? 

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message: MTW has been in CAT:NN's crazy backlog for over 11 years. It doesn't have the coverage for a stand-alone article, but it would be a shame to delete when a merge is a suitable WP:ATD. Boleyn (talk) 10:58, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal: [[More Than Warmth]] to [[The Farm (Tennessee)#Organisations]] 

message: One sentence reads"
""For a community to exist in harmony and balance, both kinds of energy had to be nurtured, and most importantly shared.""
(Although it appears that this quote is from Stephen Gaskin, it is unattributed in the text.)
But there has been no recent mention of two kinds of energy in the article, so it is entirely unclear which "two kinds of energy" are referred to here. 2601:200:C000:1A0:DD91:A900:A86F:27B0 (talk) 01:33, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which two kinds of energy?