The Influence of Helen and Scott Nearing: A 50-Year Journey
In 1976, inspired by the ideas of Helen and Scott Nearing, Sherrie Lovler and Norm Lee began a back-to-the-land life in upstate New York. They later founded The Good Life...
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Events
Annual Meeting at Forest Farm
Join us for The Good Life Center’s annual spring gathering. All are welcome! Schedule: 10:00-12:00 - Board/Business Meeting 12:00-1:00 - Pot Luck Lunch Join virtually: https://meet.google.com/iiz-dzyk-mhi In person: 372 Harborside...
Megan LeBoutillier: “What I Learned About Love from the Elephants at the David Sheldrick Orphan Project”
An hour-long presentation with narration, photos, and videos of elephant rescues and graduations to the reintegration units.
Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History
After a successful run in Portland, the exhibition Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History travels to The Good Life Center in Brooksville for the 2026 season. Reaching back 300 years, Maine’s Untold Vegetarian...
History Rhymes: Echoes of the Past in Today’s Society
As writers and artists, Rob, Aran, & Margot Lee Shetterly will explore the failures and successes in history in order to plan better for a more just future. Rob Shetterly...
Documentary Screening: “Turn Off the Machines”
“Turn Off the Machines” — a public screening of a new film about the alternative lifestyle of Ethan Hughes and his family of Belfast, Maine. Suggested donation: $10
From Individual Precarity to Collective Resilience: The Revolutionary Ecological and Social Implications of Local Microfactories, Community Fablabs, Personal Fabrication, and Fabcities
In this talk we'll see how the Nearings use economy has evolved into the maker movement and Fabcities. Fabcities are cities that produce everything they make using a circular economy....
Fermenting Grains with Joshua Rollson of Stone Broke Bread & Books
Sourdough 101: What is Sourdough? A workshop and in-depth conversation about Fermented Bread and Culture for all levels of skill and experience. Bring your questions and curiosity and take home...
Seeds of the Good Life
In this conversation, Eliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch will share stories of Scott & Helen Nearing—the homesteaders who shaped their lives—and explore what the Nearings' revolutionary politics and radical experiment...
Art Exhibition: Seeds & Threads by Dr. Rachael M Rollson (as part of the wild apotropaic)
A collage series extending the thoughts of the revolutionary quote ‘they tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds’ along with trying to make sense in ‘these troubled...
CANCELLED: Cultivating Community: The Power of Gathering Spaces & The Impact of Belonging” with Kyle Warnock of Queerly ME
Since the 1950s, the United States has seen a steady decrease in gathering spaces that effectively foster meaningful, long-lasting support networks and community belonging. As the country becomes more divided...
The Influence of Helen and Scott Nearing: A 50-Year Journey
In 1976, inspired by the ideas of Helen and Scott Nearing, Sherrie Lovler and Norm Lee began a back-to-the-land life in upstate New York. They later founded The Good Life...