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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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…
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Clare is Back
Clare went off to England and Scotland with daughter McMillan and was gone from the farm for 2 ½ weeks. She had a good time, and we missed her. She came back on Thursday. Clare has been with us for 15 years now, and her being gone only reminded me of how much a pleasure…
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To Till or Not to Till
Jack received this trailer from the Real Organic Project for their upcoming annual seminar, watched it and then wrote to Dave Chapman, the founder of the Real Organic Project. As in any cohort of people, organic farmers debate a lot about whether it is better to till or not to till. We at MHOF sold our rototiller…
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Tarping and Apples
On Friday we started the tarping process on the farm. For those unaccustomed to what this might mean, it is a practice of laying down silage tarps on garden soil and holding them down with sandbags for a specified amount of time to kill the vegetation (cover crops) below them so that when they are…