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Many Hands Organic Farm and Sustainability Center Annual Letter

December 2, 2024 Many Hands Organic Farm  and Sustainability Center Annual Letter Dear Friends of the Many Hands Sustainability Center, This year has been our best in many ways. The wonderful weather resulted in abundant early pollination for our fruit trees, longer frost-free seasons for our vegetables, and drier fields for our pastured animals. The unplanned […]

Thanksgiving

First, I must say that this is my most favorite holiday of the year. We are blessed with around 30 Kittredges each year, and have been hosting all of them since somewhere around 1978 or so. These days Thanksgiving marks the end of the active selling here. The CSA is done after 26 weeks, the […]

Hog Slaughter

November 18, 2024 It does come around each year, and though farming is so much about promoting life and then ending it, sending the pigs off to meet their maker is by far the hardest of all of the endings of life that are on my hands. Ever since I slipped in the very thick […]

Time to Unite Again

Jack Kittredge For most of us this last week has been difficult. As you know, Julie and I had thrown ourselves actively into the election campaign in support of RFK Jr. We contributed money and secured signatures to get him on the ballot here in Massachusetts as an Independent. How could we do otherwise when, […]