Baker's Green Acre's presents:

The Anyone Can Farm Experience Tribe + Site

Homestead Farm Consulting

Need some personalized information for your specific farm situation? Stuck on a homesteading farm problem and unable to find information for your exact problem?  Google is great, and sometimes it’s nice to get more personalized service.

How to Process Chickens

Learn how to process your own, carefully raised chickens at home! No need to pay someone else, spend the time and fuel to haul them somewhere, or miss out on some of the benefits of the chicken for your homestead farm. 

How to Harvest your Rabbits

Learn to harvest your rabbits from the comfort of your home with Baker’s Green Acres online education videos.

Farm and Online Classes

The Anyone Can Farm Experience,  Homestead Guild provides the highest quality, most up to date continuing education courses on homesteading practices. Courses are available online and on the farm in Marion, Michigan.

Are you looking for wholesome, pasture-grown, nutrient-dense chicken?

Purchase Your Chicken Share Today!

(Limited Quantity of Shares Available)

Our chickens are raised on fresh pasture and moved daily onto fresh grass! They are raised with love! Our chickens all are natural, fed non-GMO feed, and get plenty of sunshine, bugs and natural nutrition.

Around the Homestead – News, and Information 

Meet Tiger Lily: Homestead dairy cow

Tiger Lily (Mark calls her) or Striped Cow (as Frank dubbed her) is the newest member of the milking line-up.  She joined us in December as a "commercial dairy rescue." She was for sale from the dairy because she has an udder irregularity.  One of her back quarters...

Meet Ruby from the dairy cow herd share

What herd share is complete if you don't know your cows? Even in a big dairy cow herd you get to know certain cows and they may earn themselves a name. In a small herd like ours, and most herd share herds, the cows all have a name and a presence.  We thought it's only...

A milk day and a product review

Milk. It's a thing we do every day. Once a day. Every week. All year. Some days collecting the milk is awesome, some days it's a little challenging.  Mark is gonna tell you a bit about that in his "day in the life" video. We do the milking for our herd share members....

A Good Business

Our business isn't exactly a glory business. Custom chicken processing. But it's a service and we are professionals. Even the ten year old. These kids are awesome, and our business has facilitated so much good for them: understanding the finances of a business (they...

Gathering is a revolutionary act

Gathering is a revolutionary act. There's a great power in gathering with like minded people. When you choose to step out of the flow of "normal" life, it helps a great deal to have folks to lock arms with, to connect to, for help and support. That is how you...
Meet Tiger Lily: Homestead dairy cow

Meet Tiger Lily: Homestead dairy cow

Tiger Lily (Mark calls her) or Striped Cow (as Frank dubbed her) is the newest member of the milking line-up.  She joined us in December as a "commercial dairy rescue." She was for sale from the dairy because she has an udder irregularity.  One of her back quarters...

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A Good Business

A Good Business

Our business isn't exactly a glory business. Custom chicken processing. But it's a service and we are professionals. Even the ten year old. These kids are awesome, and our business has facilitated so much good for them: understanding the finances of a business (they...

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Chicks on Grass

Chicks on Grass

Around here, you know it's spring when the chicks arrive.  It's kind of like watching for the first robin or the swallows. Spring is arrived when the phone rings and it's the Post Office and they say, "You're chicks are here!"  Spring isn't the best time for brooding...

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Homestead Dairy Cow

Homestead Dairy Cow

Mark's been talking about the Homestead Dairy Cow, sharing his experience and knowledge. Want to know good breeds to get? What equipment is good for a homestead dairy cow? How to graze your dairy gal? Check out these videos.   We milk (or will soon) 4 different...

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It’s CSA chicken season (Almost)!

It’s CSA chicken season (Almost)!

The snow is melting. The sun is shining. The kids are shedding their snowpants and coats. Spring! That makes me think about Chickens. Also, my chicken corner in the freezer is almost empty, so that makes me think about spring and chickens, too. This week I've worked...

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The value of a life: Homestead Hog Harvest

The value of a life: Homestead Hog Harvest

This is our project this weekend: teaching a valuable homesteading skill. Appreciating your food and knowing that it was raised, harvested, and prepared with care from field to plate is part of a healthy lifestyle. Your food is your nourishment and an investment you...

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Fun in the shop: meet the chicken processing team

Fun in the shop: meet the chicken processing team

FUN IN THE SHOP: MEET THE CHICKEN PROCESSING TEAM We have a day off in the shop today.  The chicken processing shop is usually humming on Fridays, which is when we do custom chicken processing.  The weekly routine is that people who have scheduled their birds...

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You can farm! Order your custom raised chickens today!

You can farm! Order your custom raised chickens today!

Reserve Your Chickens Today!Michigan Farm Baker's Green Acres, Raises Pasture Raised Chickens for the Community, as their virtual farmer.Anyone can farm!  You may not have enough space or the ability to raise your own chickens or Thanksgiving turkey, but you can be a...

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Farming for Fun and Profit: a farmer’s winter thoughts

Farming for Fun and Profit: a farmer’s winter thoughts

It's been a while since we've posted, but the farm continues to be busy.  The winter is quieter, more of a maintenance time, a reflective time.  So, is farming worth it?  Is it for fun, or for profit?  Hopefully the answer is "both." Mark talks in this...

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