by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 23, 2009 | Green
“Many hands make light work.” Margaret Clark Well, I know my Grandma didn’t invent that phrase, but it’s where I heard it. Last night it proved true around here (again). We had 2000 + watermelon plants to put in the ground. They were...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 19, 2009 | Green
Today I was catching up on e-mail and read this blog article from MI Land Use Institute on this topic. The original source is from the T.C. Record-Eagle. It’s exciting to see chickens-in-the-city as a local possibility. It really wasn’t that long ago...
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...
