by Mark & Jill Baker | Jan 31, 2011 | Green
At the recent Northern Michigan Small Farms Conference we attended Karen Lubbers’ keynote address. Karen’s farm is Lubber’s Farm in Coopersville, MI. One of the things she talked about is the value and integrity of “real” food. A few...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jan 30, 2011 | Green
It’s a sunny day outside, the clearspan is glowing, the chickens are stretching, the pigs, goats, sheep and cow are basking. I looked at a couple of pictures of chickens on pasture this summer with longing. The clearspan still grows a mighty fine chicken in...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jan 5, 2011 | Organic Farming, Pasture Mangalitsa, Pasture Raised Chicken, Pasture Raised Pork
This quote is from Simply In Season, a wonderful and usable cookbook, written by Cathleen Hockman-Wert: “Cows in feedlots eat grains like corn, soybean meal and barley, which mostly are grown on large industrial farms fueled by petroleum. By one estimate, it...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jan 5, 2011 | Green
On Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve we received the best presents a pig can give: piglets! Two of the blond Mangalitsa sows had litters. They have proven to be good mothers. They are in loose stalls with deep straw bedding. The room is insulated and stays...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 12, 2010 | Green Acres
This snowstorm has us all excited about skiing, snowmobiling, and sledding. The animals just hunker down, though. The sheep are cruising the garden for leftover goodies. I had to rescue the remaining brussel sprouts from them–they preferred those to the...
