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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At 6’s and 7’s
As they say. . . It seems I just got home, worried sick about Ellen’s safety, we lost our well (perhaps in solidarity with Helene sufferers) and then spent 3 days in the hospital with Jack. I am always intrigued by Jack’s visits to the hospital which means me going along, bringing food, advocating, playing…
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Scab
I find that I keep my head in the sand until I am ready to take it out .. . About a month ago, a guy came by to check out the farm who considers himself somewhat of an expert on things agricultural. He reported that our apple trees are in terrible shape. As much…
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Sometimes we just hit it right
Although as I get older, I am likely to take no, or at least limited credit than I used to, for things that turn out just right on the farm, I wanted to share this wonderful mid-September, all systems running perfectly experience with our mid-July planting of early wonder tall top beets. As our Saturday…
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Food Preservation
It has been all consuming for me and Jack this past 2-3 weeks, with every day, starting at the end of farm work at about 3 pm, heading into the pile of stuff on our table, and slowly picking away at it until 7 or 8 pm. This week featured lots of tomatoes, peaches and…
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Making a Good Peach
August 12, 2024 Making a Good Peach by Jack Kittredge As Julie and I were taking our Saturday trip to the dump and stopped to get lemons and cream in town, I couldn’t help but notice the above sign in the local grocery window. I had been feeling pretty good about the amazing amount of…
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To Those Who Care for Others
Every week on the farm we are privileged to view miracles and sometimes participate in them. This week Paula’s father passed, at the age of 95, after a long and productive life. He didn’t really start to lose quality of life until he was 93. And it was at the time that Paula and Danny…