Our Publications

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.


  • Graduation

    Graduation Jack and I were delighted to be asked to fly down to Silver Spring MD to participate in grandson Geoff’s high school graduation. From the beginning of Pomp and Circumstance through the entrance of all 423 students, I had tears streaming down my face as I sorted through all of the graduation ceremonies that…

  • Going Above and Beyond

    It tickles me every May to visit the flower boxes that live on and in our deck railings, and to find that once again the petunias have “hatched” somewhere around 2000 little petunias. I haven’t put new flowers in the boxes for over 10 years, just removing, instead, about 1800 of the new plants and…

  • Fulsomness

    Coming home from England after being away only 7 short days provided me with an almost overwhelm of profusion. The fruit trees were all in bloom, the lettuce and Asian greens under the row cover were juniors already, the chard, kale, collards and lettuce in the hoophouses were beautifully mature and dark green, the arugula,…

  • Let it Rain

    Let it Rain

    Tuesday night was the first thunderstorm of the season, followed by another on Wednesday night, followed by yet another on Thursday night. We finished off the week with rain off and on Friday. Because of the higher-than-normal heat last week, they seemed almost like June storms. And the results were as beautiful as I remember…

  • Balancing the macro and the micro

    Balancing the macro and the micro

    I went to bed on Tuesday night, April 7, not knowing if I would wake up to a cataclysm the next day. I wondered with Jack that night if I should chain the dogs out with the chickens overnight as I wouldn’t want them chained up if something horrendous happened overnight. I stopped short of…

  • Food Security

    Food Security

    When the world seems to be in chaos and people get anxious about supply chains, the cost of gas, and eventually food, we are very happy to be here on the farm, raising food, not only for us, but for the 300-500 people that we feed each year. I understand that conventional farmers are having…

Processing…
Success! You're on the list.