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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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…
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Food Preservation
October 20 2025 Food Preservation Though we start preserving food back in June with the extra strawberries, it intensifies as the summer progresses, and continues at breakneck speed through October. This week we did our first cilantro freezing, and also froze peppers, kale, collards, tatsoi, cauliflower, and broccoli. We made our first batch of pear…
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Frost
October 13 2025 Frost Frost is one of those things that centralizes the focus of most vegetable growers and orchardists. We discuss and plan for the first frost-free date each spring, and sometimes hedge our bets on when we can start planting. And by the end of the season, there is a mix of emotions,…
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Settling in to the fall
September was an astonishingly beautiful month, despite so little rain. And October is more of the same, usually, with a threat of winter here and there, usually followed by some more gorgeous days. At the table we are eating more roots, and have been gorging on sweet potatoes all week. In the field we can…