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 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…
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Plants are not Vegetarians!*
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: (Hosea 4:1)
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-kle6u7sp’ admin_preview_bg=”] February 22, 2021 Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, How many of us keep our heads in the sand rather than continually thirsting for more knowledge and understanding about the myriad topics that come our way each day as human beings.…
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Let’s Remember The Lowly Earthworm
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-hrh39m’] Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, I think a lot about worms, especially when we are laying cardboard and leaves on our crop land, a tried and true magnet for worms. It is too cold and snowy right…