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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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…
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Jacked up on Seaweed
I woke up Saturday morning at 3 am raring to go. I am pretty sure that it has to do with the seaweed (Shantel’s teacher always called it “sea vegetables”) that Jack and I, Dingo, Skippy, Harriet, Eloise, Sadie and Beba have been ingesting since Thursday. Here is a great article about the immensely long…
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A Week of Celebration
July 1, 2024 A Week of Celebration See below 😊 What is in your CSA Share this week? Last week some items that were promised didn’t happen, and some extra things happened that we didn’t expect. This list is our best guess, but things are happening fast right now and we can’t always predict what…
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“Feeling Overwhelmed? Just chunk it” – Logan’s mom
Logan and I were working on my “10 minutes per day in the annex fruit” plan on Saturday (I have to go up there to do the pigs twice per day anyway, so pulling bindweed off of a couple of blueberry bushes each visit adds up quickly), and she commented that her mom’s advice above…