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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


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.


  • Natural abundance

    May 19, 2025 Natural abundance Justin and I were planting flower boxes and talking about life and its marvels on Friday on the top deck of the house. I mentioned to him that though I don’t have any flower boxes in my cultural history, for some reason at the age of 24 as a young…

  • Rain

    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,…

  • The Best Week of the Year

    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…

  • Sunshine

    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…

  • Farm Diversity

    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…

  • Back in the Saddle

    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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