Photography from the Scott and Helen Nearing Papers at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Living the Good Life
What we can learn from a Depression-era homesteading couple.
In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Helen and Scott Nearing packed up their life in New York City and settled on a 65-acre farm in the Green Mountains hamlet of Winhall, Vt., where they set out to establish a “self-sufficient household economy.” Over the course of the subsequent 20 years, the Nearings converted a deteriorating farm into a materially productive and spiritually rewarding homestead, a story encapsulated in their now classic 1954 ...
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