The Good Life Center seeks Resident Stewards for 2021
This recent article published by Bangor Daily News describes the history and significance of the Resident Steward position at Forest Farm. The... Read More
The Good Life Center Fall 2020 Newsletter
The Good Life Center’s three new board members have long-reaching connections to Forest Farm. Which one first visited Helen Nearing in 1982... Read More
Former GLC Board Chair, Jocelyn Langer, joins NOFA/Mass as Executive Director
by Greg Joly I have a vivid memory of meeting the Langer/Defranza family at a spring Good Life Center Group of Stewards... Read More
U.F.Os In Our Present Situation
In the Summer 1952 issue of World Events, Scott Nearing headlined his article “The Flying Saucer Mystery” ahead of Recent Events in... Read More
Crises in the Land of the Oligarchs
by Henry Zacchini – August 2020 At turn of the current century, my wife and I were Resident Stewards at the Good... Read More
Scott Nearing and Black America
by John Saltmarsh – July 2020 As our country once again confronts the racism so deeply embedded in American culture, perhaps this... Read More
Juneteenth 2020
by Greg Joly As Scott Nearing observed in his 1929 classic, Black America: “Consciousness of their racial inferiority is constantly forced upon... Read More
Real-Time Radical
by Greg Joly Scott published his final book, Civilization and Beyond, in 1975 at the age of 92. It is the culmination... Read More
Melissa Coleman writes about Helen and Scott Nearing’s seminal back to the land book, The Good Life
In these times of self-isolation and social distancing, taking care of one’s own needs seems more appropriate than ever. Helen and Scott... Read More