by Sky Harman, Farm Apprentice My parents were homesteaders and founded communal farms in the ’60s and ’70s, at a time when the world felt, for them, as if it had reached a point of no return. They eventually returned to the “straight” world, seeking to make a difference among the larger society at the expense of some of their high ideals. I was born into this period of transition and witnessed few of those great efforts of their earlier lives. But I learned from them how to