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.
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.
December 2, 2024 Many Hands Organic Farm and Sustainability Center Annual Letter Dear Friends of the Many Hands Sustainability Center, This year has been our best in many ways. The wonderful weather resulted in abundant early pollination for our fruit trees, longer frost-free seasons for our vegetables, and drier fields for our pastured animals. The unplanned…
Dear friends of the Many Hands Sustainability Center, We write to you today to ask for an end of year contribution. This year has been our best in many ways. The wonderful weather resulted in abundant early pollination for our fruit trees, longer frost-free seasons for our vegetables, and drier fields for our pastured animals. Using…
First, I must say that this is my most favorite holiday of the year. We are blessed with around 30 Kittredges each year, and have been hosting all of them since somewhere around 1978 or so. These days Thanksgiving marks the end of the active selling here. The CSA is done after 26 weeks, the…
November 18, 2024 It does come around each year, and though farming is so much about promoting life and then ending it, sending the pigs off to meet their maker is by far the hardest of all of the endings of life that are on my hands. Ever since I slipped in the very thick…
Jack Kittredge For most of us this last week has been difficult. As you know, Julie and I had thrown ourselves actively into the election campaign in support of RFK Jr. We contributed money and secured signatures to get him on the ballot here in Massachusetts as an Independent. How could we do otherwise when,…
There were a handful of us out picking kale on Friday and I asked everyone who they would vote for. It was an interesting cross-section – 2 for Trump, one for Harris, one for Stein and one for Kennedy. What was impressive to me is that we were all talking happily about this and that…
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