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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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,…
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The Promise of the Solstice
On Friday Kamarin graduated from Stetson, and last week he moved into his first apartment and bought his first vehicle (from money saved from working here last summer!). On the farm growth is bursting around us – there are the 250 meat birds and 100 young layers who grow by leaps and bounds each day,…
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When Insufficiency Creeps In
Well, it does from time to time with me, and usually around this time of year when we are working non-stop to stay ahead of the sun, and the farm is still not producing a bounteous harvest for the CSA. There is likely a little adrenal exhaustion going on. What follows is the appearance of…
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The Flow of Life
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-lihp8vvq’ admin_preview_bg=”] When I woke up Friday morning, it was to the sound of birds. At this time of year it gets louder earlier and earlier, until around the Solstice when it quiets down. I guess that by then the mating is complete and everyone is…