by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 18, 2009 | Green
This article from the LA Times, Backyard Chickens on the Rise, highlights a front in the local food movement that we’ve discussed with my sister, who lives near Grand Rapids. She told me this week of a gentleman down there who was told he had to get rid of his...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 16, 2009 | Green
If you are new to the local food movement and food systems in general, or even if you aren’t, this is an interesting article by Dr. Mercola. The video in it is of Micheal Pollan, who is considered a guru in the local food movement. Just a bit more...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 9, 2009 | Green
If you’ve known us for even a short time, you know that information disemination is a strong value here. This winter we met Ilene Satchell of Willow Tree Way at the Small Farms Conference. She has a program for training farmers to be para-educators and to...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 9, 2009 | Green
Here’s some information I got on my e-mail about dandelions. I’ve gotten a couple of recipes for using dandelions. FamilyHerbalRemedies.com is one place I’ve only started to mine for natural remedy information (it was very helpful in dealing with...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 31, 2009 | Green
Someone asked me today, “So, what’s going on on the farm these days.” Um, where do I start? Yikes. Then I downloaded the new lamb pictures and realized my May file is huge, even after deleting some pictures. May has been a busy month at...
