ABOUT MANY HANDS ORGANIC FARM
Many Hands Organic Farm (MHOF) grows certified organic produce, meat and eggs in Barre, MA (Baystate Organic Certifiers and the Real Organic Project). MHOF has been in existence since 1982 and has been selling to the public since 1985. We are highly diverse, no till, and focus on high quality and nutrient density through practices supporting maximum photosynthesis.
Announcing the publication of 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
Order your book directly from us by sending a check of $29, which includes shipping.
Make check payable to MHSC, 411 Sheldon Rd., Barre MA 01005. We will mail a signed copy of the book to you. $12.50 of your order goes Many Hands Sustainability Center.
“This book offers a window into living a life of meaning, rooted in integrity, values, critical thinking, and persistent effort. . . . [ Jack and Julie] have also shown me and so many others how to love across difference, how to tell the truth, and what it is to live well.”
Julie Rawson and Jack Kittredge
co-owners of Many Hands Organic Farm
Photo by Oliver Scott Snure
Time to order your 2025 Summer and Fall CSA shares
Summer CSA begins June 2nd and runs for 22 weeks.
Fall CSA begins November 4th and runs for 4 weeks.
Hog Slaughter
/in Newsletter /by AmandaNovember 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
/in Newsletter /by AmandaJack 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, […]
Politics
/in Newsletter /by JenniferThere were a handful of us out picking kale on Friday and I asked everyone who they would vote for. It was an interesting cross-section – 2 for Trump, one for Harris, one for Stein and one for Kennedy. What was impressive to me is that we were all talking happily about this and that […]