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 October 5th
This week, the crew pulled out the last of the tomato plants from the hoophouses, making way for a planting of spinach. Great progess was made on weeding the strawberries and populating next year’s beds with daughter plants. The asparagus finally got its second weeding and has been well-mulched with wood chips. Among the folks…
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Support Jack And Julie In This Year’s NOFA/Mass Fundraiser!
Dear friends and customers, Please consider supporting Jack and Julie as we participate in the Northeast Organic Farming Association/Mass Chapter’s annual fundraiser – this year titled “Human Health and Climate Action Challenge” (we are on team “Healthy Soils”). Though Julie retired August 31 from NOFA/Mass after 36 years at the helm and Jack will be retiring from editing NOFA’s…
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It’s time to order your fresh Thanksgiving turkey!
We have sold about half of our turkeys – if you want one, it really is time to order! We raise broad breasted white turkeys from Bob’s Turkey Farm in Lancaster. We go to great pains to keep our turkeys healthy and happy. We observe low stocking numbers in their movable pens and move them…
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News from the Farm, Monday September 28th
The farm is moving on from last weekend’s four consecutive frosts (Friday-Monday). Between the excessive heat of midsummer and the early coming of frost, it’s been quite the season. “Under the circumstances” Julie says “I’m modestly pleased that we are still in business and we’ll have some interesting stuff” left to enjoy over the rest of…
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News from the Farm, Monday September 21st
The week began with a grape theme, with a Monday visit from Myai who came over for a grape tasting with Jack and the crew. Several years ago, Jack mentored Myai in organic grape growing through a NOFA program. Monday’s visit was in keeping with a tradition in Vietnam of bringing one’s first harvest to…
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News from the Farm, Monday September 14th
This Saturday afternoon found Julie and WWOOFers Davida and Gavin out in the fields sowing fall cover crops – oats and barley, phacelia, millet, buckwheat and sunflower. The inspiration for this mixed bag of cover crops is forward-thinking agronomists like Australian soil ecologist Dr. Christine Jones. Dr. Jones advocates for farming practices that “maximize diversity in both cover crops and cash…