Living The Good Life
Walking in the footsteps of Scott & Helen Nearing
Greg Joly and Mary Diaz purchased a piece of land in Jamaica Vermont and hand built a homestead. Following in the footsteps of Scott and Helen Nearing who in 1932 left New York City to establish a homestead in Jamaica Vermont. There experiment in living the simple life, building there own home, growing there own food became famous with the publication of "Living The Good Life - how to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World". They continued there experiment in Vermont for over 20 years before taking there learned skills in homesteading to build another homestead in Harborside Maine.

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
― Abraham Lincoln

Thanks to Greg Joly & Mary Diaz of Jamaica Vermont

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Hot Damn Scandal
http://hotdamnscandal.weebly.com/

Elephant Revival
http://elephantrevival.com/

Nearing Photos courtesy of the Thoreau Institute & the Walden Woods Project
http://www.walden.org

Shot on vacation with a point and shoot camera - sony cybershot DSC RX100

More info on Scott and Helen Nearing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_and_Scott_Nearing
http://www.goodlife.org/