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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43 years ago . . .
after 18 months of loading children into the back of the jeep, and driving all over New England, we ended up here at 411 Sheldon Road, though there weren’t any numbers on the street at that time. We had seen it once, but wanted to get my parents’ opinion, farmers from Illinois that they were.…
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“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” – George Eliot
Always worrying about being too strong, or pushy, I thought growing up that trying to influence others was a bad thing. As I continue to delve into Brian Bouchard’s book on high performance habits, I recognize what I did finally learn a ways back, is that influencing others can be a really good attribute. It…
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Many Hands Make a Farm
I have alluded to the book that Jack and I have written. Well, it has a publication date – November 16 – and you can pre-order it if you wish. “This book offers a window into living a life of meaning, rooted in integrity, values, critical thinking, and persistent effort. . . . [ Jack…
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High Performance Habits: How Extraordianry People Become That Way, Brendan Bouchard
https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Habits-Extraordinary-People/dp/9386832356 Achievement is not the goal – alignment is. How would I like to live? Experience growth, well-being and fulfillment as we grow. Forget certainty as it stifles growth. Replace it with curiosity. And don’t go it alone. Form deliberate and conscious habits that support daily growth. Be direct and inclusive. How can I serve?…
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Rain
It has been a very hard 7 weeks. Of course, it wasn’t bad at the beginning, when the rain started in early June. Indeed, we were grateful to get rain after a short dry spell. But as the weeks progressed with heavy rain events, some coming about every 36 hours, the soil started to get…
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Staying the Course
Here in the middle of July we are right smack in the middle of the growing season. As much of New England, notably VT and western Mass are struggling with the excess rain with sometimes disastrous results, we suffer only from rampant weed growth, and a little bit of sogginess in our wetter areas. With…