My first son Aubree was born using natural child birth in the “Birthing Room” in a local hospital with myself in the room helping a little with coaching my wife Dianne on her breathing, etc. Birthing Rooms were becoming more and more popular in regular hospitals since so many of our generation opted for natural childbirth and home births. The hospitals were loosing out on a lot of income so along with the economic incentive and the changing times – natural childbirth in Birthing Rooms with family members in attendance was rapidly spreading across America. We took natural child birth classes before our son’s birth, and consulted the Le Leche League on breast feeding after Aubree was born and was nursing.
Nature beaconed and so I moved with my wife Dianne and newborn son Aubree along with my sister-in-law Suzanne and her husband Roger to Arkansas where we bought 40 acres of land. The dream was to live off the land and get back to Nature on our own property as we had tried earlier in the orange groves in Davie.
“From Wikipedia” – The phrase “back-to-the-land movement” refers to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s. This particular back-to-the-land movement was a migration from cities to rural areas that took place in the United States, its greatest vigor being before the mid ’70s.
Well Back to Nature didn’t cut it – too hard to earn an income on the land in Arkansas. So Back to Marijuana seemed like a good choice economically. I moved back to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and began selling marijuana again. This time on a bit larger scale than before, as the industry as a whole was operating on a much larger scale in south Florida, now the main import area for the US for marijuana coming in from Colombia and Jamaica.
“From Wikipedia” – For the most part, the back-to-the-landers of the 1970s were unprepared for the realities of a rural lifestyle, and many believed that they could get by without a steady source of income by selling produce and other home-made items. In reality, the problems of costs (machinery, household expenses, seeds and other supplies) and limited produce-distribution options for family farms of modest scale were difficult ones even for farmers who had been raised in the lifestyle by their parents and grandparents. Some back-to-the-landers became integrated fully into their adopted rural communities, but perhaps most returned to city living after a few years in the country, mainly because of financial trouble and relationship problems.