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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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Fertility Sequence
Friday we picked up on a fertility sequence that has been a focus of mine since last summer. The “back of the north”, a section of the farm that is about 7200 square feet in area, is a section bounded by the orange hoophouse on the west and the back of the field melting quickly…
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Truckers and Other Delivery People
March 23, 2026 Truckers and Other Delivery People On Friday, Ross Trucking showed up with our annual tote of VT Compost Potting Soil. As Marissa and Clare and I stood waiting in the driveway for Big Dog to show up with the load, I dropped back into a muse state around the 35 or so…
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Spring Forward
It was with a sense of utmost wonder that I observed the passing of the snow over this past week. It isn’t all gone yet, but the vegetable fields are almost clear (with the outlier being parts of the garden) and the orchards are completely clear of the mountains of snow that we have been…