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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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),…
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Rain
May 12, 2025 Rain When I said that the week before last was the best week of the year, I didn’t expect to say that the next one would be the worst week of the year. But by Saturday, when I took the following pictures, about a quarter of the farm was under water. Fortunately,…
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The Best Week of the Year
May 5, 2025 The Best Week of the Year What didn’t bloom this week? A few plants that set flowers here this week include violets (taking over the lawn in purple), dandelions (taking over the fields in yellow), pears, peaches, plums (already started last week), Juneberries, grapes, and a couple of early apples. And because…