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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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…
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Rebalancing
Every year in July I seem to have to go through a period of ennui, or sometimes depression. It is brought on by the often-excessive heat, the unrelenting work of the farm, the weeds that we didn’t get taken care of in a timely fashion, and the realization that the season is only half over,…
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Eloise
Special individuals come along in our lives from time to time and thus they remain indelibly marked in our memories and our hearts. Eloise the cat, who we found on the front lawn dead on Wednesday morning, was one of those individuals. She was part of a 6-kitten litter back in August of 2017 whose…
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“If we have been harmed by a death from a thousand cuts, we can heal from a thousand virtuous acts working together” Dr. Yogi Hendlin
The latest podcast of Ari Whitten’s covers corporate capture of science, ideological bias, glyphosate, golf courses, war chemicals, and myriad other topics that stimulated my thinking process in new ways. I learned for the first time (or perhaps remembered again) that the reason glyphosate causes gluten sensitivity, is because not our genes, but the genes…