by Mark & Jill Baker | May 7, 2009 | Green
An interesting article popped up in the Wall Street Journal a couple days ago. Chip Hoaglund at Cherry Capital Foods brought it to our attention. You can read the article in its entirety as it covers more than just chicken and is quite interesting. Here is an...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 5, 2009 | Green
“April showers bring May flowers.” The flowers the girls pick for me are fun, but even better for everyone is the green grass that sprang to life. We now have nearly everyone out on pasture. It really does make a difference. The goats have brighter...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 3, 2009 | Green
Due to technical difficulties, it’s taken me a bit to get these pictures up, but here are the wooly mangalitsa pigs. They arrived courtesy of a capable young entrepreneur, Jimmy Lambert, who’s young enough not to mind a lot of hours behind the wheel...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Apr 13, 2009 | Green
It’s that time of year. Things start to speed up at Baker’s Green Acres and we start to wonder how everything will get done. It’s been sunny, but the wind is really chilly yet, which has complicated some projects. Mark & Kyle did manage to get...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Mar 30, 2009 | Green
This winter we became aware that a large scale food distributor is trying to develop a “local foods” section in their offerings. I’ve mentioned before that we have questions and reservations about how this would work out as far as local, sustainable...
