Short answers, pulled from the story.
Tolstoy Farm was an ashram founded by Mohandas Gandhi in 1910 in the Transvaal province of South Africa. It served as the headquarters of a satyagraha campaign against laws that discriminated against Indians in the Transvaal.
Tolstoy Farm was Gandhi's second ashram in South Africa, not his first. His first South African ashram was Phoenix Farm, established in Natal in 1904, six years before Tolstoy Farm opened.
Tolstoy Farm was named after Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer and philosopher whose 1894 book, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, had greatly influenced Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence. The name was proposed by Hermann Kallenbach, the Gandhi supporter who made the land available.
Hermann Kallenbach was a Gandhi supporter who allowed Gandhi and between seventy and eighty other people to live at Tolstoy Farm for as long as their local satyagraha movement remained active. He also proposed the community's name.
Tolstoy Farm operated without servants. Every task, from cooking to scavenging, was carried out by the residents themselves. The community housed Gandhi and between seventy and eighty other people.
The residents of Tolstoy Farm constructed three new buildings: one for living quarters, one as a workshop, and one as a school.