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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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…
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Comic Relief
Toilet “Hey, Chuk. Thanks for your concern about our toilet and it’s usefulness given my condition, including finding a taller possible replacement and bringing it over. I tried it out today and unfortunately don’t think it is enough taller to enable me to rise up on my own. I would still have to use the “booster” seat, which kind…
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Bliss Brain
Dawson Church I have been a fan of Dawson Church and his work with Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) for a few years. Lately it seems that the universe is suggesting to me that it is time to start meditating. I have been a died in the wool non-meditator for decades; I was too busy. But…
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Jason (the Cuch) Cucchiara
For eleven years we worked closely with recovering addicts directly on the farm. Many remarkable people passed in and out of the farm during that period from 2007 – 2017. Brian, for example, who was one of our first hires, was one of our most reliable, responsible and mature farmers from that collection of folks.…