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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


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.


  • 30 Plants per week are the Sweet Spot

    30 Plants per week are the Sweet Spot

    Dr. Tim Spector Podcast with Rich Roll – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nop0-lZy9cM&t=51s I like this title. More and more as I study nutrition, the folks I most respect aren’t so adamant about whether your diet is keto, carnivore, vegan, vegetarian, omnivorous, or what have you, but that it center around lots of plants. As we are coming up on…

  • First Refill the Stapler

    First Refill the Stapler

    If you are a farmer or gardener, and you are like me, time is feeling a bit tight right now. And then there is that exhaustion that can come on around 12 hours into your day, especially on a heavy laboring day, of which there are many right now. One day this week I woke…

  • The Beauty of the Finite – Zach Bush

    We have a finite time on this earth. Because of that, it is so very precious. I love to listen to Zach Bush who from this talk below I pulled other gems including “Connectivity  through biodiversity” – the more different things we eat, people we meet, experiences we enjoy, and thoughts that we expose ourselves…

  • Harmony

    Harmony

    I have been studying a lot recently about “all are one” and the wisdom of the masters which repeatedly states that we are all related, but I get really excited when I am part of something that is bigger than myself in a really tangible way. Our little somewhat inconsequential community chorus has been plugging…

  • Biting off more than you can chew and chewing it, revisited

    Biting off more than you can chew and chewing it, revisited

    Hi Julie, The subject this week made me chuckle a bit, because that is precisely what I am trying NOT to do this season! It’s easy for us over-achievers (especially if we are self-employed) to work long days with little time for rest, often burning ourselves out. The past few weeks I have been focusing…

  • Sounds suspiciously like enlightenment, doesn’t it?

    Sounds suspiciously like enlightenment, doesn’t it?

    “To let go of the notion of self, except as a sum of parts, and as part of a whole…it sounds suspiciously like enlightenment, doesn’t it?” -Stephen Skolnick The degree to which we favor our in-group over the out-group may be determined partly by our biochemistry, but who we think of as belonging to each…that’s…