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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When the Pigs Get Out!
First, I try to get them in by myself. Then I ask Jack to come help, and then I call in the big guns and ask Dan to make the ½ hour trip over to help me get them back in. At this writing, he hasn’t come yet, but I am quite confident that the…
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THE CSA Cycle Starts Again
Today starts our 2024 Summer CSA. For the next 26 weeks (22 for summer and 4 for fall) we know what we will be doing on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week. We started our CSA in 1992 so this will be year 33. We may be one of the oldest continuous CSAs in the…
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Memorial Day
I think I have noted before that I have been marching in the Barre, and often Hardwick Memorial Day parades for the past 40+ years. Though the 4th of July is bigger where I come from in Illinois, Memorial Day is the big one here in Central Mass, with parades and services in almost every…
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Mother’s Day
It became clear to me, perhaps when I would dress up our cats in outfits and spend hours with our border collie growing up, that I liked being a mother. When this day comes around each year, I take stock of my mothering, mother-in-lawing, and grandmothering, mothering of various of the folks who show up…
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Why We Sell Direct
April 29, 2024 No newsletter next week, just an ad for Dave Petrovick’s not to be missed workshop on machinery on the farm or homestead on May 11, and an upcoming zoom about the CSA – May 19 at 6. Julie is off to England. Why We Sell Direct by Jack Kittredge We recently received…
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Earth Day
I was around for the first Earth Day. Our entire school walked around the back roads of Milledgeville, IL and picked up cans and bottles. And I spent that whole day with my history teacher, Tom Wiltshire, who was quite a renegade in that small midwestern town. In his class we debated such topics as…