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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Bite off more than you can chew every day and then chew it
“Bite off more than you can chew every day and then chew it.” -Camilla Ella Williams Well now, that is a tall order! I love to rub shoulders with folks who operate in their lives with this kind of perspective. Lately I have been intrigued by the writing of Michael Singer who guides us to…
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No Shame, No Blame, Just Growth
No Shame, No Blame, Just Growth -Michael Singer I ran into this thoughtful guy serendipitously this week and enjoyed his outlook on life. He reminded me of my dad and his story of the new guy who came to town and asked someone, “Is this a friendly town?” The other person asked a question back,…
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Put it under a bushel no, I’m gonna let it shine.
How many of us hide large portions of ourselves due to fear that others won’t like what they see, our behavior might start fights or wagging fingers, or isolation? I face that choice every day, often just in tiny ways, which might seem inconsequential at the time. I write this on my 70th birthday, and…
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Energy Ignites Talent
“Energy Ignites Talent” – Connor Carrick My head is swimming with all the information I took away from the Microbes and Mental Health Summit last week. If you are interested in cutting edge health information, it is a good deal for absolutely no money to listen in to these folks. The last one I want…
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A Return to Simplicity
“Working together in the bush, sawing and cutting and stacking the wood for winter, is a return to simplicity. The feel of energies bent to a task and seeing it through is the stuff of community, and a realization of how much we let slip away to technology and the speed of things. Reach out, leave…
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There is so Much to Do!
Good thing that we will have another big storm this week to stave off the early spring rush a bit longer. But it is inevitable and it is coming fast. Though we got all of our fruit tree pruning during the non-winter winter, we got cut short on finishing up the chipping, and can’t complete…