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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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…
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10 minutes per day to competency
I was talking with my friend Jocelyn the other day who was enthusiastically relating how 10 minutes per day with her 5th and 6th graders is turning them into great ukelele players. As a person who has a huge appetite and many interests, I find that the 10-15 minutes per day plan does the trick…
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Animal Husbandry
Although it was the last week of the summer CSA, the focus of this week was definitely on our farm animals. When I was a kid, the part I most loved about our farm was our animals. I spent hours with our cats and dogs, but also rode horses with my mom and sibs, helped…
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Celeriac
Who knows what celeriac is? Perhaps you have heard of celery root? It may be one of the homeliest of all vegetables – a lumpy root vegetable with celery growing on top of it (though the celery is not of high quality). I am featuring it this week because it is so homely, it is…