Olive Jones: anarchy and idealism at the Graham Downs commune

In 1979, inspired by the countercultural movement sweeping the country, teenager Olive Jones embraced rural communal living. By the age of twenty-one she was one of the founders of the Graham Downs farming community in the Motueka Valley. Built on anarchy and idealism, with the aim of self-sufficiency, it was a bold experiment. Olive's book Commune: Chasing a Utopian Dream charts the course of the commune and the highs and lows of living without rules.