My wife who lived in a tepee in the desert before we met is now a fine looking middle aged mama, matron of our home in the southside of Tucson, tax preparer and all round great helper to me, but the hippie comes out. I am not totally unsympathetic as I was a food faddist for a couple of years trying to get off drugs.
We have a gray water garden with our washing machine and dish water, occasionally eat hummous and falafels , built a chicken coop (still haven’t gotten chickens yet) and have recycled for years.
Interestingly there is here and in many places a network of mostly Christian, pro life, conservative almost neo hippies who are to different degrees self sufficient, rabidly anti government, nearly apolitical and home school.
I guess like has been said here, you can’t pigeon hole people.