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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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…
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Not Growing Old
January 8, 2024 Not Growing Old Of course, we are all growing older, each minute. But I realized that I don’t need to grow old. I have always watched those folks who make it into their 90’s and sometimes 100’s and study them for clues about how best to grow older. I think so much…
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WE INTERRUPT THIS NEW YEAR’S LETTER WITH A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
NOTE that Julie Rawson and Jack Kittredge have been served with a restraining order not to read this section or we’d be seeing them blushing and saying “aw shucks”. On Sunday January 14 from 2:00 – 5:00 at Barre Players Hall on Barre Common (64 Common Street), there will be a special event to recognize the thousands…
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Jump for Joy
This is an invasives Christmas message today. I do hope all of us are celebrating the joyousness of life today, whatever our traditions. Jumping is a wonderful activity. Have you ever tried it with a two-year-old? I advise it! I was on the phone with my friend Noah the other day, and he suggested that…