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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Dealing with the Heat
July 21, 2025 Dealing with the Heat Everyone has a different relationship to the heat of these sometimes-intense July days. On Wednesday, I sent folks home early, right after lunch, because none of us could bear the thought of working those hours between 12:30 and 3. We did have an interesting experience in the hoop…
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Weeds and What They Tell You
July 14, 2025 Weeds and What They Tell You compiled by Jack Kittredge Weeds are often a farmer’s worst problem. But for all the damage their competition does to a field’s production, they also do great service. First, they quickly cover any exposed surface with green, photosynthesizing life, preventing the soil’s loss of carbon to…
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When Pain Defines Everything
July 7 2025 When Pain Defines Everything That sore leg last week turned out to be a bout with Lyme disease, my first since 2021. Similar to my experience that year, the pain was excruciating, by far worse than childbirth. But by Sunday we had a diagnosis, and I had my doxycycline and pain meds.…
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Solstice Update
June 23 2025 Solstice Update I hope you enjoy the attached video update of the west field at Solstice. Watch on Facebook Watch on Instagram Gratitude Friday was a special day this week. It is really nice when there are 9 of us in the field, and especially on the Solstice. Although some days seem…
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Gradients
June 16, 2025 Gradients Jack Kittredge Walking down our road this Spring has reminded me of the sense I had when moving to Barre with Julie years ago, that life here was a little more analog, flowing, not jerky. There are still seasons, sure, like in the city. But they seemed to change more imperceptibly:…