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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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…
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Miracles do happen
This is a story about Jason. A volunteer from Stetson who hadn’t been here since early in 2023, Jason lost about 50 lbs. in the interim, had a huge smile on his face, and worked assiduously last Monday. Clare and I didn’t even recognize him until we were at lunch and he was eating heartily…
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Bayer Chokes on Monsanto
December 11, 2023 Bayer Chokes on Monsanto (abstracted by Jack Kittredge from a NY Times article on Dec. 6) Having bought the U.S. agrochemical behemoth Monsanto for a cash payment of $63 billion in 2018, the German pharmaceutical conglomerate Bayer appears to have made what Wall Street investors are calling “the worst merger in history.”…
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Chickens
We didn’t have chickens growing up, although we did have pigs, beef cows, sheep, turtles, skunks, little alligators, guinea pigs, parakeets and raccoons. I think mom thought they would be too much hassle. But when we got out here to Barre, by 1984, after Jack and my dad built the chicken house, we were in…