Many Hands Organic Farm 2025-2026
Directed by Sally Kingsbury
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.
Read our latest newsletter
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Many Hands Sustainability Center in the News
Loree Griffin Burns wrote a lovely piece on the Many Hands Sustainability Center for the spring issue of Edible Worcester. Read it here. Thank you, Loree (and Katie Noble for the beautiful photos, including the one above).
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Summer Shares Are Sold Out!
“The breaking news on the farm this week: our summer vegetable share is now sold out! Among this year’s CSA shareholders, we count many returning recent members, members from many years ago, friends of friends, and new members – and we’re excited to share the bounty of the season with all. A big thank you…
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Spring’s gift to your good health
“This week, Mario, Leo, Julie, working shareholder Morgan and I harvested dandelions from the strawberry beds. The plants were vibrant green and enormous – abundant, mounded rosettes of slender toothed, notched leaves whose vigor and beauty spoke of the fertility and health of the soil. “They do well here” Julie noted as she set to…
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Of planting spring’s first starts
“The potatoes are in, as are the first transplants of the year – kale, planted in our West field on Tuesday and Thursday (this batch in the cold rain!). There is little perennial grass to contend with there, and planting is as simple as removing the mulch, rip the rows, apply a nutrient-filled transplant drench,…
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Weed, mulch, repeat
“Tomatoes and peppers have been started this week, with the help of honorary farmers McMillan, Eliza and Maggie. The field-planted spinach is up, the thin green blades of their seed leaves a vibrant green against the dark soil”. Read the rest of this week’s news from the farm.
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Nutrient dense, carbon-sequestering, grown with love
“…our new layers arrived last week. We ordered 125 birds in all, a mix of Black Stars, Red Stars, Pearl White Leghorns and Whiting True Blues that will lay a lovely medley of brown, white and blue eggs starting in fall. They’re keeping warm in the brooder now and will move to pasture when their…