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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“I can get by with a little help from my friends” – McCartney/Lennon
Sometimes I think that the Beatles were more importantly philosophers than songwriters! I could spend an entire year riffing off of their lyrics for this rag. Today I want to talk about Randy Buck, who appeared in last week’s newsletter. Intent on getting the hoops back in place on our “blue” house before returning to…
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“There will be an answer, let it be.” Paul McCartney/John Lennon
As I start a new year of life on this planet I am aware that I won’t be around forever. All the more reason to live each day as it might be the last, and to do it without my occasional short-temperedness or excess of expectation. Jack and I enjoyed calling our MHSC donors this…
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.”
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Albert Einstein When Jack came to bed and apprised me of an hour and a half youtube he had watched by Iain McGilchrist who has a…
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Genes are not our destiny; they are our potential
Perhaps we all have the narrative in our heads that we are certain ways – smart or dumb, talented in sports or music or not, in line for a heart attack or in line to die in our 90’s, all because of our genetics. And although research shows that we indeed have certain propensities, both…
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Dear Friends and supporters of the Many Hands Sustainability Center,
There seems to be a perceptible transformation happening on the farm that really started with the beginning of Covid in 2020 and has morphed and upgraded to a new level in 2021. We have been “open” since the beginning of the pandemic, and continued to have our daily well-populated lunches around our kitchen table, along…
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Roots
There were two trees standing next to the road and a couple of people walked by together. One tree said to the other, “Do you think those people can communicate with each other?” The other said, “I don’t see how as they don’t have roots.”* Lest I go on ad infinitum about our little chorus,…