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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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…
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The Microbiome Labs Keynotes Symposium
September 18-21, I spent in Nashville with daughter Ellen, at a gut biome conference. Having organized about 30 conferences in my life, it was fun to just attend and learn I was the only organic farmer there, as the rest of the folks were doctors and health professionals. And I tried to keep my mouth…
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Fall
No Newsletter next week, September 22 – I am off to Nashville for a gut biome conference with Ellen 9/18-21 It truly is the best time of the year, in my estimation. There is still an almost grueling (at times) amount of work to accomplish in a day, but this is the time when we…
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Asking for help
Many of you have been following our blow-by-blow account of mishaps and misfortunes on the farm in 2025. But let me list it out again if you have missed it. The year started wonderfully, as farming years often do, when much of the hard work of preparation in January through March is under one’s belt,…