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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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.…
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Digging Holes with Friends
I am not sure how many holes we have dug here at MHOF over the past 41 years. From fence posts (these have to be very deep), to making rows for row cropped seeds, or holes for potatoes, fruit trees, berries, graves for dogs and cats that have passed, or holes dug in order to…
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“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”– Deepak Chopra
October 30, 2023 “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”– Deepak Chopra Jonathan sent me a link to a Rich Roll podcast titled “Master of Change: Brad Stulberg on Rugged Flexibility and the…
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Two Old Horses
Friday was a trip down memory lane. About 35 years ago Jack and I and all four kids, probably aged 7 to 11 or so, crammed into our stake body truck and drove to the soon to go defunct Mission Hill Food Coop in the Back Bay to pick up the walk-in cooler that they…