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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Sunshine
April 28 2025 Sunshine Friday, as we worked with the Clark students on planting our lettuce, chard, cabbage, and Asian greens, someone went off to get some sunscreen, and I commented that I thought folks should be wary of sunscreens due to the literature on their potentially dangerous impacts on our health. I listened to…
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Farm Diversity
April 21 2025 Farm Diversity As in, gosh we do a lot of different things in a day on the farm. When asked what he liked about working here lately, one of our Stetson guys said he liked the fact that we were always changing it up and that it was fast paced (and he…
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Back in the Saddle
April 14, 2025 Back in the Saddle Though this week of 7 days sported 4 snowy ones, I felt by Friday that I was back at it, with the familiar feel of the rake and hoe in my hands, and all was well with the world. There is something more than meditative, somewhat even entrancing,…
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A Tale of Two Customers
April 7, 2025 A Tale of Two Customers by Jack Kittredge It is the worst of times, it is the best of times. Given the daily news pelting us about war, censorship and the economy it is easy to despair and want to hide our heads. Yet some things give us great hope, particularly the…
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Cleaning up broken glass
March 31, 2025 Cleaning up broken glass Our dear friend Jack Mastrianni sent this article last week – Be like a farmer. I was particularly drawn to his discussion about how to clean up a broken glass. What a great morality tale, very simple. Things are always breaking and needing to be cleaned up or…
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Spring
March 24, 2025 Spring My friend Maria texted me right when spring started on March 20 and, as I pointed out to her, I hadn’t even remembered that it was here. For most of the decades of my life I got pretty excited about spring. I remember when I was in first grade on the…