The Good Life Center

Phone 207-326-8211
Email info@goodlife.org
Website https://goodlife.org/

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  • From Individual Precarity to Collective Resilience: The Revolutionary Ecological and Social Implications of Local Microfactories, Community Fablabs, Personal Fabrication, and Fabcities

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    In this talk by Lonnie Gamble, 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. Atoms cycle locally while ideas, designs and best practices flow globally and open source. Suggested Donation: $10

  • Fermenting Grains with Joshua Rollson of Stone Broke Bread & Books

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    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 some starter. Suggested donation: $10

  • Seeds of the Good Life with Eliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    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 in simple living still has to teach a world hungry for alternatives.

    Free

  • Cultivating Community: The Power of Gathering Spaces & The Impact of Belonging

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    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 and individualistic, we see an uptick in isolation and a decline in public health and well-being. In this talk, explore the three components of community...

    Free

  • The Influence of Helen and Scott Nearing: A 50-Year Journey

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    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 Get-Together, a yearly summer gathering with workshops for those drawn to the back-to-the-land movement and published Homesteaders News magazine for over nine years. Helen and...

    Free

  • Deep Dive with the Bullfrog

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    Thousands of people have visited the Nearings' final homestead, at The Good Life Center, in Harborside, Maine, and many have seen the Bullfrog documentary film about their lives. At this gathering, Greg Joly will offer live commentary on the Nearings' homesteads, their life-ways, and the political and economic radicalism that undergirded everything they built.

    Free

  • How to Find Hidden History

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    Much of history has been buried by the passage of time. Join writer and history researcher Avery Yale Kamila who will go over Moral Treason, a paper she wrote for the Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society exploring 19th-century Maine author Oakes Smith's early work as an editor and involvement in the previously unknown Portland Female Anti-Matrimonial...

    Free

  • Going Against the Grain with a Legume!

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    In this talk, Sarah Speare, CEO and co-founder of Tootie’s Tempeh will share the story of how a food company stood up to nearly every norm in business to become best in its category.

    Free

  • Swordfish in Wabanaki Homeland

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    Archaeological sites along the Maine coast show that swordfish existed in the Gulf of Maine between approximately 5,500 and 3,700 years ago. Excavations at multiple Maine sites have produced swordfish rostra, vertebrae, and other remains, indicating that Wabanaki ancestors harvested and processed these large fish for millennia. In this presentation, Dr. Bonnie Newsom will discuss...

    Free

  • Backyard Composting 101

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    The Good Life Center Board will lead this hands on workshop that will cover the basics of the principles of composting as well as how to construct a well designed compost pile. Participants will learn about Scott Nearing’s composting strategies as well as how enhance the overall fertility of their garden with time tested composting...

    Free

  • Mobile Commoning: How Sharing is Caring in a Climate Hope World

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    This talk considers the history of “commoning” as a way in which generations of people around the world and right here in Maine have resisted private property, settler colonialism, and enclosure by moving more lightly across places, from swamps and forests to urban edges and oceans. Can sharing energy, food, and transport help us achieve...

    Free