Going to Seed - A Counterculture Memoir

Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential - and unusual - eco-activist you might not have heard of. The Observer

Simon Fairlie is the original hippie. The Idler

This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in extraordinary times. George Monbiot

Going to Seed is the unforgettable firsthand account of how the hippie movement flowered in the late 1960s, appeared spent by the Thatcher-consumed 1980s, yet became the seedbed for progressive reform we now take for granted - and continues to inspire generations of rebels and visionaries.

At a young age, Simon Fairlie rejected the rat race and embarked on a new trip to find his own path. He dropped out of Cambrid