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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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…
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Getting on Purpose
August 11, 2025 Getting on Purpose I have been somewhat fascinated by my slow and steady recovery from Lyme disease. At this juncture, my right knee still has some challenges, but I can almost walk down stairs without a limp. What has most fascinated me is my return to inspiration, to get out of bed…
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Ah, August at Last
August 4, 2025 Ah, August at Last I know there is a bit of consternation out there, having heard through the grapevine, that we are going out of farming in 2026. And as I pointed out to Tyson Neukirch on Friday, who works at Mt. Grace Land Trust, most of my farmer age-cohort has long…
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The Great Reset
July 28, 2025 The Great Reset Transitioning on a farm always has to happen, because people eventually grow too old to keep up the unrelenting pace, or perhaps all of a sudden just don’t want to do any more. Broken shoulders, Lyme legs, unrelenting depredation by wild friends, and impossible weather patterns, have given Jack…