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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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…
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The Power of Gratitude in Improving Health and Well-being – Dr. Isaac Eliaz
November 27, 2023 The Power of Gratitude in Improving Health and Well-being – Dr. Isaac Eliaz The Power of Gratitude in Improving Health and Well-being In this weekly article by Dr. Eliaz (I encourage you to subscribe to his uplifting newsletters) talks about the science of how being grateful improves health and seeing the downside…
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Thanksgiving
November 20, 2023 Thanksgiving Folks often have a favorite holiday. The top of the charts for me is Thanksgiving. This is the holiday after which the farm takes a radical turn. The crops are all harvested except a few hoophouse items that we will share with the voles over the early winter, the pigs are…
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The Big Pick
November 13, 2023 The Big Pick There is one day each year where we have to double down and accomplish the “big pick.” This is the date after which it was too late to pick the remaining field crops if we want to pass them out in the CSA. And it was this past Friday.…