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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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,…
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Drought
Wow, here I am complaining again. Friday night Jack and I left home to go two towns over to visit son Dan and it started raining about a mile from home. Then there was a veritable downpour all the way to North Brookfield, such that Dan met us at our car doors with an umbrella.…
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Enjoying the special moments
August 25, 2025 Enjoying the special moments With the weather very beautiful this week – okay, we were wet and cold on Wednesday but not complaining – it was natural to ease into the farm week, irrespective of the pall that was hanging over us of financial instability for 2025, exacerbated by the loss of…
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Meeting our responsibilities to others
August 18, 2025 Meeting our responsibilities to others This is really on my mind, and heart these days. When you take 140 people’s money for vegetables, and hire 8-10 folks to help raise them, not to mention the slew of volunteers who work for veggies or eggs, there are a lot of folks who in…