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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A Fertility Sequence
Friday we picked up on a fertility sequence that has been a focus of mine since last summer. The “back of the north”, a section of the farm that is about 7200 square feet in area, is a section bounded by the orange hoophouse on the west and the back of the field melting quickly…
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Truckers and Other Delivery People
March 23, 2026 Truckers and Other Delivery People On Friday, Ross Trucking showed up with our annual tote of VT Compost Potting Soil. As Marissa and Clare and I stood waiting in the driveway for Big Dog to show up with the load, I dropped back into a muse state around the 35 or so…
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Spring Forward
It was with a sense of utmost wonder that I observed the passing of the snow over this past week. It isn’t all gone yet, but the vegetable fields are almost clear (with the outlier being parts of the garden) and the orchards are completely clear of the mountains of snow that we have been…
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War
This may be the only newsletter you read that moves from house cleaning to war, but I try to share what is uppermost in my mind during any week, and I am overwhelmed by the news of the US attack on Iran. It seems that from the inception of this country, even before we were…
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Cleaning House
The feng sui folks will tell you that it is an act of self-love to clean out and clean up one’s space to make room for the new, whatever that might be. I have to say they must be smiling on us right now. Matt and Jack have spent hours and hours going through all…
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Today
Clare and I were out on our now increasingly regular Saturday morning walk with our dogs and I was expressing how beautiful the sun was on the new 3” layer of snow. I hearkened back to Februarys of 35-45 years ago when I found myself often in a mildly depressed state, suffering with Seasonal Affective…