"Longo Mai" a translation from the Provence dialect reads "for long duration" is a European community cooperative created in 1973 by an international group of young people. They bought 3 large farms with money collected from friends and publicity collected funds. The group's headquarter is in Hasel and has over 120.000 members and donors. The group has attracted young people who wished to return to the more deserted rural areas to work in an ecologist community offering "an alternative way of life" to that of modern society.