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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Stephen Harrod Buhner- “Healing Lyme”
It is all about herbs, it seems, and plants. Buhner puts it this way. The microbes, folks like Lyme spirochetes, have been around for 15-20 million years. And plants predate them with a history of at least 700 million years on earth. Now we folks have only been at it for 300,000 years. Because of…
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Anthony Changes Roles
Anthony Brogno came to us in the spring of 2020 to visit and get some advice about whether to take a role at Earthlands Farm in Petersham. He took on that role of onsite farm manager and then shortly thereafter started coming over to our farm one day a week for some on farm training,…
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Developing our Gratitude
Donna Eden, who I mention here from time to time, is a long term mentor of mine. First introduced to her work through her bestselling book, “Energy Medicine” https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Medicine-audiobook/dp/B01F5WHFRS/ref=sr_1_2?crid=O4RGHU9RUQGW&keywords=Energy+Medicine&qid=1642251298&sprefix=energy+medicine%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-2 I have watched and followed her videos and free online exercises for several years, despite occasional rolled eyes from Jack. A couple of weeks ago she offered 10…
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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…