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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Hog Slaughter
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…
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Politics
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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Kaleidoscope
Afnaan from Clarke U and I were sitting on the grass eating lunch Friday and discussing his parents’ country of origin – India, and agreeing that India is a kaleidoscope of colors, and noises, and people, landscapes, mammoth cities, and vehicles, etc. I feel this past week has been the same here on the farm:…
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It Doesn’t get much better
As I think back over the week and the tens of folks who passed through our front door, it is a kaleidoscope of fond memories and appreciation for so much labor on behalf of this farm. Those who have come here for a while might notice that I am more organized each day and thus…
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The First Frost
As we were picking tomatoes off of vines on Friday to prepare for the numerous frosty nights this week, my 42 memories of the first frosts of the fall all came tumbling back. Last minute was the theme in the past, and to be fair to me back then, I don’t think it was as…