Our Book
This is a memoir of our lives and sometimes risky decisions. We relate our early years, meeting and raising kids, and building the farm, the organic movement and a healthy community. We didn’t always go along with what most Americans were doing, especially in the areas of diet and health care, employment, debt and consumerism, energy use, and culture. In this book we explain what we did, why we did it, and how it turned out. We hope it is both entertaining and helpful to people wanting to fashion a purposeful life.
– Jack and Julie
Nutrition in Addiction Recovery Study
Soil Carbon Restoration: Can Biology Do the Job?
by Jack Kittredge
Internationally acclaimed and in 9 languages,
this paper explains the problem of carbon dioxide buildup and climate change, how carbon can be taken out of the atmosphere and restored to the soil, and the advantages that can come to farmers and consumers from growing in carbon-rich soils.
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Soil Preparation
March 17, 2025 Soil Preparation After what I would call a normal winter, it is particularly enjoyable to savor these fantastic long and relatively warm March days. About a week ago, I woke up one day and decided that I had to accomplish many, many things all of a sudden, after worrying mostly about how…
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You get what you ask for
March 10, 2025 You get what you ask for That is, if you are lucky. And I have found over the past 49 years that Jack will answer the question that I ask him. He and I went out for a walk Friday and I proudly showed him the peach tree in the front yard…
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Eggs are in our headlines
March 3, 2025 Eggs are in our headlines Julie Rawson and Jack Kittredge Raising Organic Eggs: Who isn’t talking about bird flu and the price of eggs these days? Jack and I are splitting up the salient topics and will share our thoughts today. I came upon this relevant podcast this week How to Get…
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Don Huber – the prescient on the abuses of glyphosate
February 24, 2025 Don Huber – the prescient on the abuses of glyphosate I was very fortunate to be the executive director at NOFA back in 2018(?) when we invited Don Huber to be the keynoter at the NOFA Summer Conference, and thus was Don’s handler all weekend. He was 84 then and now at…
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Farming Carbon
February 17, 2025 Farming Carbon As many of you know, I am pretty excited about carbon farming – maximizing carbon uptake via photosynthesis and feeding soil life. Jack’s great paper on the topic came out in 2015 when there wasn’t yet a whole lot of digestible info on it. You can reference it here: Soil Carbon…
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Autism Prevalence Needs Explanation
February 10, 2025 Autism Prevalence Needs Explanation by Jack Kittredge Many of us are related to children with autism. A friend recommended an excellent podcast questioning that condition’s rate of increase over the last 50 years. The rate is stunning. Fifty years ago it was 1 child in 10,000. Today it is one child in…