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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Work/Life Balance
I was sure that the worst of the heat was past us, but then the last few days have been pretty oppressive. Perhaps the wonderful pass that we got on heat up until July 15 was just pushing off the heat until a little later in the season. Regardless, it has been difficult to stay…
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Breathing
Breathing Videos from MHOF this week At some point this week, everyone on staff was gone at least one if not 3 ½ days, so I didn’t do as many movies. Watch video on Facebook Watch video on Instagram Watch video on Facebook Watch video on Instagram Watch video on Facebook Watch video on…
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Politics
“Politics” is derived from the juicier Greek word, “politeia,” which implies an active engagement in which people empower each other to enhance their communities.” – Jean Houston I happened on to this quote Saturday morning in my Eden Energy feed. We talk about a lot of things while in the field, especially on a weeding…
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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…