[3] Having moved to Eliot, Maine, with her parents in 1887, she worked on establishing a public library in that city.

[3] After attending the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893 with her father, Farmer decided to establish Greenacre, with the support of her acquaintances in the New Thought, women's clubs, and women's suffrage movements, as well as several Ralph Waldo Emerson societies.

[3] These afforded annual assemblies for lectures by leaders of advanced thought, American, European, and Oriental.

[2] The Greenacre Colony attracted wide attention because of its free discussion of religious subjects.

[2] It was during her trip in 1900 that she met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and became a member of the Bahá’í faith.