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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Foghorn Leghorn – what our rooster is teaching me about courage
We have had roosters off and on throughout the years, and sometimes we have turned them into soup, because over the winter and early spring when they are completely free range, they have become too aggressive for folks. Specifically, we have had leghorn roosters in the past who were pretty chill, so I decided to…
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A Belated Valentine’s Day message
“Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners” ― Elizabeth Bourgeret On Valentine’s Day this past week, Jack and I made something of a pact, to see how deeply we could continue to fall in love, with…
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi
Thats a tall order, especially the part about thinking only productive thoughts. I have found that working on this list from the 3rd to the first helps me make the most progress. We have to engage a lot of body parts to “do” something so there is more room for intention to take charge. And then…
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Planting Schedules
Over the past two weeks we have been busying ourselves with the task of putting together our farm maps and planting schedule. For some reason this is my very most favorite thing to do each year. Clare and I have spent hours, with some help from the rest of the staff too, figuring out how…
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Will You Help us with our Deer?
January 29, 2024 Will You Help us with our Deer? Deer Damage Prevention Ideas Sought – Jack Last Fall we experienced our first real crop damage from deer. This might be surprising, given how practically all of our growing areas are close to woods. We have always assumed our dogs were preventing serious deer damage…
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Want to Go High? Dig Deep
I am being quite challenged, and sometimes exhilarated, by a book that I am reading right now, titled Arete. One of Friday’s messages struck me and stuck. The author was commenting that when building one story buildings, builders put in a relatively shallow foundation. But when building a skyscraper, a very deep foundation is needed. He then…