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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Come on People Now, Smile on Your Brother, Everybody get together, got to Love one another Right Now
This song, written by Chet Powers in 1963 and popularized as heard here by the Youngbloods in 1967 came to mind when I received, in contrast to the many very kind and upbeat emails that I receive each week, an email from a former turkey customer — in response to a generic marketing email I…
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Reckless Driving
February 2, 2026 Reckless Driving Clare and I had planned to do a walk with our dog pack on Saturday morning early, but I got a text from her saying that she thought it would be unwise for her to bring her loaner vehicle, that doesn’t have snow tires, out in the storm. I really…
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Solar Gain
Anyone who has spent any time with Jack, especially while in our house in the winter, will hear him wistfully wishing that our passive solar house design, that we actualized in 1982, would be universally accepted as a very sane and also free way to heat your house. We have saved thousands of dollars over…
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The Wanderer
I have been in and out of awareness of the Vagus nerve for a long time, and was reminded of its power in the body on one of daughter Ellen’s cleanse calls with her friend Brittney who extolled its virtues for a full hour. Long story short – a healthy vagus nerve imparts a sense…
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Bingo, We all Win
This is a line that comes very near the end of Barbara Kingsolver’s book, Pigs in Heaven. This book centers around a situation where a white woman finds a Cherokee 3-year-old in her back seat, bruised and beaten, and adopts her. At age 6 Turtle, the Cherokee child, saves a guy’s life and ends up…
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What I learned from the staff this week
Over the past week I spent about 12 hours on the phone with the MHOF staff and volunteers in individual zoom calls to discuss the goings on at MHOF from the staff point of view. I love to run evaluations and find out what is on people’s minds or hearts. As always, this process was…