Editing Zendik Farm (section)

=== Bonsall, CA (1978-1981) ===
The Zendiks arrived in California with five people. They began rebuilding the commune over the following summer, first at a rented compound south of Temecula, and later at a rented suburban house near Fallbrook. By the fall of 1978, about a dozen members settled into a 5-acre homestead owned by Wulf's parents in Bonsall, a small farming community in northern San Diego County.

Members at the Bonsall farm had their own (often improvised) living spaces in buses, trailers and sections of outbuildings. A large garden was established and they started accumulating livestock, including dairy goats, fowl, and donkeys acquired through a government adoption program.

In the spring of 1979 they published the first issue of "The Cozmik Revolutionist", a mimeographed newspaper promoting their militant environmentalist point of view. The motivation was to give members something to do when venturing into the outside world, but it soon developed into a significant source of income. By the end of the Bonsall era, groups of Zendiks were regularly spending weekends selling "mags" on the streets of the San Diego and Los Angeles regions.

Meanwhile, the hills surrounding the farm were frequently the target of aerial application of commercial pesticides. Living downwind from these clouds of poison made any long-term future for the Bonsall site untenable. In the summer of 1980, they began to prepare the Bonsall site for sale, gathered buses and trailers with the intent to eventually become a nomadic group, and shed much of their membership.

The remaining members rented a house on the desert near Thousand Palms over the following winter; and they were down to six people before they began to regroup in the Fall of 1981.