Editing Zendik Farm (section)

=== Perris, California (c.1969 - c.1974) ===
The commune first housed roughly 5 people in huts that were made up of [[plywood]] and carpeting that had been taken from dumpsters.<ref name="WP" />  At its peak there were as many as 60 people there, living in school buses and trailers.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Zendik Farm Members Interview |url=https://digitalarchives.usi.edu/digital/collection/p17218coll1/id/10500/ |access-date=2023-01-26 |archive-date=2023-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126053303/https://digitalarchives.usi.edu/digital/collection/p17218coll1/id/10500/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

At the Perris location Wulf turned his attention to music, developing an improvised form of vocal and instrumental art. Among a host of other instruments, he invented and built the Itar, an 8-string instrument combining the sounds of both the Eastern sitar and the Western guitar.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=October 10, 2002 |title=Wulf Zendik |url=https://litkicks.com/WulfZendik/ |website=Literary Kicks}}</ref> A band was formed that performed mostly at universities in the Southern California region.<ref name=":0" />

He also continued writing, creating volumes of poetry, and “Don’t Go,” a slim, powerful anti-war hymn.<ref name=":1" /> These were the farm's first efforts at self-publishing with the deployment of a mimeograph printer.

Smog and development eventually encroached on the property and the Perris commune disbanded by the mid-1970's.