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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News from the Farm, Monday November 9th
This week on the farm began with bitter cold, the work made easier by all of the work done last week before and during the rain and snow. And then the weather turned, and the crew planted the garlic in balmy weather – three big beds of it, a total of 1,800 row feet – and mulched…
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News from the Farm, Monday November 2nd
“We had a huge effort on the part of the staff and working shareholders and volunteers this week. Not only did we have to navigate the final week of the 150 person summer CSA, but from Wednesday through Friday with cold and rainy and then snowy weather pretty much non-stop for the entire three days…
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Fall CSA starts Tuesday, November 3rd and Wednesday, November 4th!
The first pickups for this fall’s CSA will take place on Tuesday, November 3rd and Wednesday, November 4th. CSA members, see below for our pickup schedule! Barre shareholders: Week 1: Tuesday, Nov. 3rd Week 2: Tuesday, Nov. 10th Week 3: Tuesday, Nov. 17th Week 4: Monday, Nov. 23rd Holden, Worcester and Princeton shareholders: Week 1: Wednesday, Nov. 4th Week…
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News from the farm, Monday October 26th
This week on the farm, we finally finished weeding the strawberries and transplanting the daughter plants to new beds. Our crew – including four volunteers from Trader Joe’s – brought the effort to its culmination with lots of energy and song. We have five beds now, all planted, mulched and well-organized for next season. Julie…
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News from the farm, Monday October 19th
This week Julie put a lot of time and fundraising muscle into the NOFA/Mass Human Health and Climate Action Challenge (with administrative support provided by yours truly). Daily video tips were created, posted to social media, and emailed out to a big list of supporters, friends and donors to previous NOFA/Mass events – and we raised…
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News from the farm, Monday October 12th
Farm life held a lot of high notes this week. One was the purchase of a goodly number of vinyl bags which we filled with sand. The crew put the sandbags down on the edges of the Remay that we’re using to protect a number of tender growing crops from the cold. Cathleen used this method in her previous work…