by Mark & Jill Baker | May 17, 2011 | Green
Even though it was rainy and breezy, several brave and curious souls arrived at the Michigan Biochar sponsored biochar seminar last Saturday. As mentioned before, Peter Hirst was the featured presenter. Peter is one of the foremost proponents of biochar in the...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 16, 2011 | Green
The rain is wonderful. The sun is great. We especially love it when it rains hard like it did yesterday and then is sunny and warm like today. The grass seemed to grow two inches! We spent the day outside as much as possible, with various degrees of sunburn to...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 12, 2011 | Green
We’ve had the privilege this week of spending a great deal of time with Peter Hirst of New England Biochar. Peter is probably on of the foremost experts on biochar in the U.S.. He is very knowledgeable about soils and biochar. Michigan Biochar, with which...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Apr 25, 2011 | Green
One of Joe’s projects this spring is growing mushrooms. He’s got 2 or 3 varieties to get going. Last week the boys worked on the logs for the shitake mushrooms. This weekend I came across this article about mushrooms. I had trouble with the video, but...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Apr 16, 2011 | Chickens, Green, Mangalitsa, Non-GMO Pasture Raised Chicken, Non-GMO Pasture Raised Pork, Organic Breakfast Sausage, Organic Chicken, Organic Farming, Organic Pork, Pasture Mangalitsa, Pasture Raised Chicken, Pasture Raised Pork
On April 12 we officially had the first chickens out on grass. Well, grass such as it is when the snow has only been off it a week or less. We needed to clean out the clearspan building in preparation for our summer production, so these chickens got kicked out and...
