Apple Pruning Workshop with John Bunker!
DATE & TIME: Sunday March 18th, 2012 from 12 noon to 3pm
LOCATION: The Good Life Center's Nearing Homestead on Cape Rosier in Brooksville, Maine
Maine apple expert John Bunker will be a special guest at the Good Life Center's third annual spring apple pruning workshop. Camden arborist Doug Johnson, along with Mr. Bunker, will teach proper pruning techniques and annual maintanance pruning to acheive fruit production, health, beauty, and longevity. Bunker will demonstrate how to prune scion wood for grafting.
Attendees should bring bypass hand pruners. Suggested donation is $15. The Nearing Homestead is at 372 Harborside Road, Brooksville, Maine. For information contact Doug Johnson at 207-236-6855.
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"The good life is more than a yearning for the good, the beautiful, the true. It includes decision, will, determination, and effort, individually and collectively, to be clear regarding the theory as well as successful in practice...aiming at the integration of thought, the word and deed which is the expression of wisdom and the basis of serenity and inner peace."
-Scott Nearing, Man’s Search for the Good Life
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The Good Life Center a non-profit education center based out of the last hand-built home of Helen and Scott Nearing, which is located at Forest Farm in Harborside (Brooksville), Maine on five acres of forested land overlooking Spirit Cove. The Good Life Center's purpose is perpetuate the goals, philosophies, and lifeways of of the Nearings.
Who were Helen and Scott Nearing?
The Nearing were two of America's most inspirational practitioners of simple, frugal and purposeful living. In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Helen and Scott Nearing moved from their small apartment in New York City to a dilapidated farmhouse on 65 acres in Vermont. For over 20 years, they created fertile, organic gardens, hand-crafted stone buildings, and a practice of living simply and sustainably on the land. In 1952, they moved to the Maine coast, where they later built their last stone home.
Through their 60 years of living on the land in rural New England, their commitment to social and economic justice, their numerous books and articles, and the time they shared with thousands of visitors to their homestead, the Nearings embodied a philosophy that has come to be recognized as a centerpiece of America's "Back to the Land" and "Simple Living" movements.