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Adventures in Gardening, Eating and Living

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Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch’s farm in Harborside, Maine was featured in the NYT last week. Their homestead and garden were part of a Cape Rosier/Blue Hill garden tour once, maybe 10-12 yrs ago, and I was lucky enough to visit it then, when I lived in Maine, along with some other similar gardens on former Nearing land.  Coleman and Damrosch credit Helen and Scott Nearing with their livelihoods. The Nearings are also among those who first got me interested in voluntary simplicity, with their book Living the Good Life, when I read it about 20 yrs ago; they were … Continue reading Adventures in Gardening, Eating and Living

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Simplicity

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The Good Life Center at Forest Farm, the homestead of Helen and Scott Nearing in Brookside, Maine, now offers a regular online journal of essays, poetry, art, thoughts. This essay about simplicity in October’s issue, by John Saltmarsh [now located here – Feb 2012], spoke to me, because I swim in the place where the waters meet, dipping into simplicity that is merely discriminating consumption and an attempt to solidify my own identity, and doggy-paddling in simplicity that is intentional in its respect for all of creation, that is politically and spiritually motivated; here’s an excerpt: “Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. … Continue reading Simplicity