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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The Lost Beagle – and community
Sometimes I am in the presence of people who grieve over “the lack of community these days.” I had a thought-provoking experience about that on New Years Eve. I went to town and the first stop was the PO, to mail yet one more package to Ellen. Sybil asked about the beagle, if it had…
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Grounding into Slow Times
Mostly Jack and I wanted to give you another chance to donate to the Many Hands Sustainability Center this end of year – see the reprint of our annual appeal below. But first a word from each of us for the new year. Every day this past week I have jumped out of bed ready to…
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Farm Doins
Farm Doins It is lard time for at least the next 2 weeks. Each Monday and Friday now starts with an hour of two of fat back cutting. Friday was our most efficient crew. We were able to put away 24 quarts of the liquid gold stuff. As I reminded folks on Monday, we are…
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Snow Shoveling
I went out on Tuesday night to shovel snow in the dark, right before the end of the storm, while the temperature was still above freezing, knowing that if I waited until morning it would be a frozen mess. As I went about my rounds of uncovering all of our vehicles, cleaning off the front…
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Thanksgiving
I realize that it is probably considered old news this week, but gosh, did I enjoy Thanksgiving this year. First of all, the 2025 farm year officially ended on Wednesday at 2 pm when we sold the last turkey, and then the festive food preparation began. Creamed onions is an old Rawson tradition which I have kept…
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I hate Bullies
I knew it would be problematic when I ordered a new batch of layers after our June coyote massacre of the young layers. Introducing younger and older birds into the winter house was as bad as I feared with the older girls pecking to death about 10 of the new ones once we made the…