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.
Read our latest newsletter
-
Hum for Humanity
Everyone is talking about the big solar eclipse that is happening today. https://www.npr.org/sections/solar-eclipse/2024/04/04/1242568508/solar-eclipse-april-8-2024-watch – this website tells you what time it will be with you – looks like 3:23-3:33 for us in Barre. The Hum for Humanity folks – https://youtu.be/0RguQBgtmAc?si=ZqYE9jW8qG38BmYs -want us all to hum on middle C for the duration. Now, I think this is really cool.…
-
Opening Up our boxes
When I stop to think about how to live fully in the world, I think of a cardboard box and how I can climb into it and close the lid from time to time. And how tight that can feel, and cut off from others and life itself. Spring is a really great time to…
-
“The task of liberated people is not to scold the world and preach to it, but to delight it back to its senses.” ~Alan Watts
I like to have fun at whatever I do, so I resonate with this statement thoroughly. For sure, it involves stopping the shaming and judging of others, which for me has been a lifelong challenge, but in time and with lots of practice, we can center back on ourselves, and cleaning up our internal narrative…
-
New Beginnings
Did you know there are only 8 more days until the first day of spring? If you are like me, you will remember this winter of 23-24 as a non-event, or almost so. Though we have to watch the weather closely for the next month or two as potential dips into a deep freeze, like…
-
Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex
I stumbled upon the anterior mid-cingulate cortex the other day and was fascinated by this knowledge. There are two of them, as a matter of fact, and according to Andrew Huberman, who has popularized education around this organ in the brain, they are our will center. In this video Huberman discusses tenacity – needed to…