Brook Farm was a utopian community founded in 1841 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, by a group of transcendentalists, including George Ripley. The community aimed to create a harmonious society that combined manual labor with intellectual pursuits, promoting a balance between work and leisure. The farm operated for about six years and attracted various writers and thinkers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller. Despite its idealistic goals, financial difficulties and internal conflicts led to its dissolution in 1847, but it left a lasting impact on American social reform movements.