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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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…
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Come on People Now, Smile on Your Brother, Everybody get together, got to Love one another Right Now
This song, written by Chet Powers in 1963 and popularized as heard here by the Youngbloods in 1967 came to mind when I received, in contrast to the many very kind and upbeat emails that I receive each week, an email from a former turkey customer — in response to a generic marketing email I…
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Reckless Driving
February 2, 2026 Reckless Driving Clare and I had planned to do a walk with our dog pack on Saturday morning early, but I got a text from her saying that she thought it would be unwise for her to bring her loaner vehicle, that doesn’t have snow tires, out in the storm. I really…
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Solar Gain
Anyone who has spent any time with Jack, especially while in our house in the winter, will hear him wistfully wishing that our passive solar house design, that we actualized in 1982, would be universally accepted as a very sane and also free way to heat your house. We have saved thousands of dollars over…