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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…