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Helen Nearing

    Helen Nearing was an American author and advocate for simple living. Her writings explore the challenges and rewards of a life closely connected to the earth, emphasizing self-sufficiency and sustainability. Through her work, she shared profound insights into living in harmony with nature. Nearing's prose invites readers to consider their own relationship with the natural world and the possibilities of a more deliberate existence.

    Live, Laugh, Lesbian
    Socialists Around the World
    Simple Food For the Good Life
    The Maple Sugar Book
    The Good Life
    Loving and Leaving The Good Life
    • 2023

      A lesbian self-help guide with chapters on coming out, enjoying a healthy sex life, navigating your sexuality in the workplace, building a queer community, and managing toxic positivity in LGBT+ spaces.

      Live, Laugh, Lesbian
    • 2021
    • 2000

      The Maple Sugar Book

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      Originally published by J. Day Co., New York, 1950, with a couple of subsequent reprints, this classic volume provides the small-scale commercial practitioner or homesteader with clear instructions on the production and marketing of maple syrup. schovat popis

      The Maple Sugar Book
    • 1999

      Simple Food For the Good Life

      • 309 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
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      Describes how, all the way to their ninth decades, the Nearings grew their own food, built their own buildings, and fought an eloquent combat against the silliness of America's infatuation with consumer goods and refined foods.

      Simple Food For the Good Life
    • 1992

      Helen Nearing's testimonial to the life she and her husband Scott spent together, and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice, and peace.

      Loving and Leaving The Good Life
    • 1989

      This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health.

      The Good Life