Hog Farm

The Hog Farm is an organization considered to be America's longest running hippie commune. With beginnings as a collective, first in North Hollywood, then, after moving, taking its name from its actual hog farm domicile in Tujunga, California. The group, founded in the mid-1960s by peace activist and clown Wavy Gravy (formerly Hugh Romney) and his actress wife, Jaranara Romney (formerly Bonnie Jean Beecher), evolved into a "mobile, hallucination-extended family", active internationally in both music and politics.

The Hog Farm is perhaps best known for their involvement with the . While lodging on Manhattan's East Side from 1968–69, the Farm was approached by Woodstock Ventures with a proposal — participate in a planned music festival in upstate New York. Although the Farm had just bought land in Llano, New Mexico (near Truchas, New Mexico) and the commune had plans to depart New York City and settle in Llano, they accepted the offer to become involved with Woodstock. Recruited to build fire pits and trails on the festival grounds at Woodstock, the Hog Farm convinced the promoter to let them set up a free kitchen as well.

The Hog Farm group was flown to New York, were met by the world press at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and told for the first time that they had also been assigned the task of providing security at Woodstock. Gravy called his rather unorthodox security force the "Please Force", a reference to their non-intrusive tactics at keeping order ("please don't do that, please do this instead"). When asked by the press what kind of tools he intended to use to maintain order at the event, his response was "Cream pies and seltzer bottles."

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