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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We are a walking talking rainforest – Kiran Krishman
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-knc88wyh’ admin_preview_bg=”] April 12, 2021 Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, Yes, that is right. Thanks to the Soil and Nutrition Conference – https://soilandnutrition.org/ for a star performance on Thursday by Kiran Krishman. It is all about butyrate – eat those wonderful root crops to keep…
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“Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift.” Robin Wall Kimerer
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-kn29pm0g’ admin_preview_bg=”] Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, If you have not yet read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, I would say it is a must read. Above is one of many concepts that she so eloquently passes along in this beautifully written…
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“Heredity is nothing more than stored environment”– Luther Burbank
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-kmrx1apy’ admin_preview_bg=”] March 29, 2021 Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, What a phenomenal week on the farm. Led by beautiful weather every day and all sorts of new folks – Naomi, Leslie’s sister, Kym’s high school sister, and Jose, who is here…
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The healing power of community
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-km88r800′ admin_preview_bg=”] March 15, 2021 Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, This was bulk order week at MHOF. We have been hosting this central Mass site for the NOFA/Mass bulk order since 1985, and it is now a sacred tradition around here. Friends…
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“I really don’t like the word “science”
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-kly8vk4t’ admin_preview_bg=”] Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, So says Ben Taylor-Davies who was the guest this week on John Kempf’s podcast. He is a regenerative farming consultant in the UK who moved away from conventional agriculture, in part motivated by his son…