Welcome to the Historic Homestead
of Scott & Helen Nearing

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.

The Good Life Center is now closed, but guests are welcome to enjoy the property on their own or with the self-guided tour available in the small kiosk. Please call Warren Berkowitz at (207)374-5386 for any additional information or requests.

The Good Life Center seeks applications for the 2023 Resident Stewards. For more information, please refer to the Residency page.

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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In the News

The Good Life Center seeks Resident Stewards for 2021
February 18, 2021
This recent article published by Bangor Daily News describes the history and significance of the Resident Steward position at Forest Farm. The Good Life Center is still seeking Resident Stewards for the 2021 Season. Click here to read more about the position and how to apply.» Read More
The Good Life Center Fall 2020 Newsletter
November 22, 2020
The Good Life Center’s three new board members have long-reaching connections to Forest Farm. Which one first visited Helen Nearing in 1982 (pictured above)? Find out in the Fall 2020 Good Life Center Newsletter here!» Read More
Former GLC Board Chair, Jocelyn Langer, joins NOFA/Mass as Executive Director
October 20, 2020
by Greg Joly I have a vivid memory of meeting the Langer/Defranza family at a spring Good Life Center Group of Stewards retreat in 1997 or so. Helen had passed less than 2 years before and the Trust for Public Land was in charge of a 3 year interregnum that was designed to make a fledgling GLC into an independent, ...» Read More