The mission of The Good Life Center is to perpetuate the legacy of Helen and Scott Nearing.
The Good Life Center, through its programming and preservation of the historic Forest Farm homestead, advocates for simple and sustainable living skills, social and economic justice, organic gardening, and the non-exploitation of animals and the environment.
News
We're pleased to officially welcome our 2025 Stewards, Lucy Marcus and Jordan Humphrey!
(Apply here for 2026 onward!)
Recent Mentions & References
April 9th, 2025: Seven Days, Modern Anxieties Fuel a New Wave of Vermont Homesteaders
March 24th, 2025: The New Yorker, How an American Radical Reinvented Backyard Gardening
Through May 17, 2025: Maine's Untold Vegetarian History Exhibit at the Maine Historical Society
Upcoming Events
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We acknowledge that the Good Life Center exists in the place we now call Harborside, Maine, which is home to the sovereign Wabanaki people. We honor and are grateful for the ancestral and contemporary Wabanaki peoples indigenous to this land in the Dawnland.
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