Both a memoir and an instructional manual, this book details how a young couple named Jack Kittredge and Julie Dawson started a family and vowed to provide for their children while working from home doing work that served others and satisfied their need to be productive.
“We describe how we found land in rural Massachusetts, designed and built a low-fossil-fuel-using house, made a living through jobs we created and could do primarily from home, raised our children, created an organic farm, grew and preserved most of our food, and helped build a live community around us,” they explain.
Written jointly, with the narrative passing back and forth between the two of them, they tell the story of a pair of 1960s radicals who took unconventional paths to pursuing their dreams and achieved most of what they set set out to do.