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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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…
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Jack’s sister Nancy died this past week at the age of 89. Given two weeks to live over a month ago, she went home from the hospital and her three dedicated children – Steve, Sue and Julie – treated her to a most wonderful exit. They hosted all manner of relatives and friends, and with…
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“Every Species makes the world alive and increases the amount of life around it” Charles Eisenstein
My friend Brenda Armstrong-Champ sent me this link to a wonderful podcast that John Kempf from AEA conducted with Charles Eisenstein. This entire podcast was full of thoughtful observations about farming and farmers, the environmental movement, life’s purpose, the golden rule, and inspiring conversation. I was particularly taken with this quote above that reminds us…
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Flower Boxes
Long term readers may be apprised of the war with the cats over whether we have flower boxes or cat boxes on our balconies that overhang our south facing windows. We put those balconies on when we built the house so that they would block the sun from coming into the house in the summer,…