Video: Living The Good Life - Walking in the footsteps of Scott & Helen Nearing
Living The Good Life - Walking in the footsteps of Scott & Helen Nearing
"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land." ― Abraham Lincoln
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. Their 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.
Thanks to Greg Joly & Mary Diaz of Jamaica Vermont