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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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…
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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.…