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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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…
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The Lost Beagle – and community
Sometimes I am in the presence of people who grieve over “the lack of community these days.” I had a thought-provoking experience about that on New Years Eve. I went to town and the first stop was the PO, to mail yet one more package to Ellen. Sybil asked about the beagle, if it had…
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Grounding into Slow Times
Mostly Jack and I wanted to give you another chance to donate to the Many Hands Sustainability Center this end of year – see the reprint of our annual appeal below. But first a word from each of us for the new year. Every day this past week I have jumped out of bed ready to…
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Farm Doins
Farm Doins It is lard time for at least the next 2 weeks. Each Monday and Friday now starts with an hour of two of fat back cutting. Friday was our most efficient crew. We were able to put away 24 quarts of the liquid gold stuff. As I reminded folks on Monday, we are…