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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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:…
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Be Careful What You Say
June 9, 2025 Be Careful What You Say Right before we lost our entire apple crop to excessive rain and wind in the second week of May, I think I cavalierly noted that we had just passed through the best week of the year. Last week, I posited something about living a charmed life. And…
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Gratitude
June 2, 2025 Gratitude That is what came to mind this week, on a bunch of different levels, where I was in the presence of exceptionalism. Monday – Justin came on the holiday to help me with the chores and prep for the week. Tuesday – Matt, Marissa, Justin, Devra, and I hauled ass all…
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Rumination
May 26, 2025 Rumination I know that we all do it from time to time, but for me, the week before the CSA begins, I always fret about whether we will have enough to put into share bags. But for crying out loud (as the sky has been doing in an unrelenting fashion this month),…