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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Feeding others
This is the title of one of the chapters of our upcoming book with Chelsea Green. As I wrote this chapter last fall, I decided to daily track how many meals would be served to people here each day in 2022. Right now, we are at 2,481 meals with 118 clocked in the past 7…
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PFAS – per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Thanks, Rich, for sending over this article on sewage sludge and what it has done to farmland and the food grown on it. Here is the link: wsj.com/articles/maine-farmers-dump-milk-lose-crops-as-forever-chemicals-taint-soil-11656932400 (Note: it looks like some web browsers may require you to “create a free account” on the Wall Street Journal website in order to read the article. If you…
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Contemplations on the Solstice
Back when I was a lot less healthy, I was significantly more sensitive to the rhythms of the sun. On December 22 I would “wake up” from my slow autumn decline toward a modest melancholy, and start recharging my solar battery. By May I was into a frenetic pace, which culminated with a crash right…
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Slug Fest
Anyone who farms or gardens is probably thinking about slugs right now. And even though Jack and I read a delightful book about a woman who recovered from a serious illness by having a pet snail, I still don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for them. But this week Dan was here from England,…
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Cooperation is not a matter of following a blueprint
“…cooperation is not a matter of following a blueprint -J Krishnamurti …laid down by the State, by the leader of a party or a group, or by any other authority….” Laurie gave me 3 copies of Krishnamurti’s books Commentaries on Living, parts 1, 2, and 3. I fall asleep with them on the couch on…
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The landscape is an arena for the interaction of natural and social forces
“The landscape is an arena for the interaction of natural and social forces. It is not fully under the control of its authors. We will have to create the world’s largest gardens. All are collaborations with natural forces. Rarely do their authors claim to be restoring or rebuilding anything from the past. And they are…