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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What is inside a carpenter’s head?
Hi Julie – Long-time reader, first time writer. While I understand that running a farm obligates you to write about mulch and all that nonsense, it seems like there’s a fair bit of renovation going on at the farm this year. Having employed a number of carpenters myself over the years, I thought I could…
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Happy Birthday Ellen, and, let’s talk about rock dust
Happy Birthday, Ellen, and while we are at it, let’s talk about rock dust Ellen arrived 10 days after her due date, right after my dad and mom arrived to help with the homebirth and my dad noted that it was time to get on with the show. So labor I did, and Ellen was…
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Kamarin
Kamarin Remarkable people come along from time to time. I would like to give a shout out to this one. Kamarin has been volunteering with the Stetson folks over the past year or so. We nabbed him for February vacation and were able to engage his help this April vacation also. All I can say…
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Good Friday
As Maria said it so succinctly on Friday when she breezed in to buy eggs and reconfirm as a working shareholder in 2022, “Happy Good Friday, Easter, Passover, Patriot’s Day, or whatever works for you.” It was such a good Friday here. Sadie gave birth to 5 kittens* on our bedroom rug at 4 am.…
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I love mulch – Julie Rawson
Yes, folks, there ain’t nothing like it. And this week we were in receipt of 40 bales of beautiful golden straw from Gary Shepherd, a friend of former working shareholder Maria Leo (thank you Maria for the hook up!) We really need to go back to Ruth Stout, the queen of mulch – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Stout (1894-1980) – read…
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Everybody wins when we ask for help
“Everybody wins when we ask for help” – Rob Wergin I really enjoyed this very simple but elegant piece of advice this week. In this case Mr. Wergin was speaking of asking for help from our spiritual guides, but even if we are merely speaking of the physical plane, it is a sound practice. I…