If U would like to add links to this page, please send URL address and Summary information to jlh for consideration! http://www.thefarm.org/ The_Farm Ecovillage Hippie Sustainable Community, Right Livelihood, transformation, hope, utopia, appropriate technology, Psychedelic Sex Free Love Pacifist Socialist Progressive Utopian Alternative Village Farm Summertown Gaskin Sixties Commune Hippy American Vegetarian Communities Mushroom Liberation Marijuana Hemp Haight Ashbury community, vision, planet, ecology, eco-village, ecovillage, village, future, pollution, population, climate, global, strawbale, Y2K, change, apocalypse, caterpillar, sustainability, hope, zen, meditation, buddhism, design exchange, training, education, environment, city, eco-city, renewal, Gandhi, philosophy, psychology, hyperspace, liberty, politics, reality, perfection, entheogen, alchemy, sovereignty, media, freedom, religion, evolution, gaia, science, revolution, tao"> http://frank.mtsu.edu/~mhgreene/farm.html The Farm Midwifery Center is now offering a Midwife's Assistant Program. We offer a series of three workshops; Level I, Level II, and Level III. They are designed to teach you how to become a midwife's assistant and to give you a solid skills foundation on your path to becoming a midwife. We are committed to teaching midwifery within a spiritual context and creating a supportive sisterhood. http://www.thefarm.org/quikindx.htmlThe Farm Summertown, Tennessee, USA Quick Index to the Farm Home Page http://www.thefarm.org/charities/mid.html Summertown, Tennessee, USA The Farm Midwives Ina May Gaskin 111K JPEG (199x245 pixels) NEW! Mother of Midwifery from Vegetarian Times (July, 1995) Go to: Pronatalism, Midwifery, and Synergistic Marriage Spiritual Enlightenment and Sexual Ideology on The Farm (Tennessee) by LOUIS J. KERN Published in W.E. Chmielewski, Kern, L.J., and Klee-Hartzell, M., Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States Syracuse University Press, 1993, Sargent and Claeys, Editors. See too: our Midwifery Video. http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/natinduc.html Non-Pharmaceutical Induction http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/3486/page7.html THE FARM _ Whether you are expecting a baby or not, Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin is a must read. It is a beautiful collection of birth tales and an insightful look at the most successful attempt at communal living. While I may not fully agree with all of their practices, in particular multi-partner marriages, I do very much agree with their promotion of birth as a natural process.