GMO free Mangalitsa pork on the BBQ grill

GMO free Mangalitsa pork on the BBQ grill

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Building a BBQ – Turning a Lemon Into a Hog Roaster

Building a BBQ -Great ideas don’t always work as planned on the homestead.  Mark’s biochar building learning curve produced a failed burner, but left him with raw materials for a new BBQ!  We’ve BBQ’d our share of hogs on the roll around grill he made almost 20 years ago at our Montana farm, and he’s ready to up the game.  The plans include being able to cold smoke meats for ourselves, so there are more than just BBQ possibilities here.  But, here’s Mark to tell you about it himself:

Past Homestead Blogs – Anyone Can Farm

Homestead Economics: more than money

by | July 9, 2020 | Education, Green, Homesteading, Organic Farming, Team Work | 0 Comments

The bottom line of your homestead farm's economics. Are you all about a good environment for the kids? Making some money? Having good food to eat? Helping your local community? All of the above are possible and important. The economics of a homestead is about the...
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Teaching them the ropes: homeschool on the homestead

by | June 4, 2020 | Green, Home Schooling, Homesteading, Organic Farming, Team Work | 0 Comments

Farming on a small farm is a family affair, which makes a homestead a great homeschool tool. Everybody participates to the best of their ability. It's surprising, too, how much ability kids can have! One of the things that has kept us going all these years has been...
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It’s CSA chicken season (Almost)!

by | March 10, 2020 | Chickens, Free Range Chicken, Non-GMO Pasture Raised Chicken, Organic Chicken, Organic Farming, Pasture Raised Chicken | 0 Comments

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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Reading Lists for the homestead

by | February 25, 2020 | Education, Organic Farming, Virtual Farmer | 0 Comments

Books are a homestead farmer's best friend.  Right up there with YouTube and Google. And older farmers.  On our LIVE YOUTUBE Q&A programs, we've been asked what books we use as resources and reference. There's a whole list right here:  Homestead Farm Books The...
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The value of a life: Homestead Hog Harvest

by | February 20, 2020 | Education, Farm to Fork, Hog Harvest, Homesteading, Homesteading Classes, Learn how to butcher, Mangalitsa, Organic Farming, Pasture Mangalitsa, Team Work | 0 Comments

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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Building fences

by | February 7, 2020 | Green | 0 Comments

    Setting good fence posts is the foundation of a good fence. https://youtu.be/xOoTeXsIgSk We've chased our share of pigs. And cows. And goats. And sheep. It's not an experience we look forward to. It makes for a good "Farmfit" exercise. And lots of...
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Summer scenes on the farm

by | July 31, 2019 | Green | 0 Comments

Every year is a new adventure on the farm.  Every summer brings it's own challenges and joys.   What's up this summer?  We're still raising our chickens out on pasture in mobile chicken tractor pens and giving them GMO free feed along with the grass and bugs.  We're...
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It’s all about who you know

by | June 18, 2019 | Green | 0 Comments

"Do you like doing this job?" Someone asked me this once about chicken processing as I was loading her processed chickens into her car.  That question often comes back as I'm heading into the shop on Friday morning.  Friday is the day we process chickens for other...
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Natural Pest Control

by | June 12, 2019 | Green | 0 Comments

We love to grow our garden.We love to eat from our garden. (Mark calls it "drive by eating" when you just eat lunch off the plant.)We even love to share our garden with other people.We do NOT like to share our plants with garden pests who eat the plant or produce...
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Anyone Can Farm with spring weeds!

by | June 9, 2019 | Green | 0 Comments

Anyone Can Farm weeds! I’ll show you how today.  Beyond a doubt you can procure something for yourself to eat.  You are a natural farmer, you just don’t know it yet.  And this farming probably won’t cost you anything.  It’s the ultimate free lunch.  Salad, at any...
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You can BBQ a Baker’s Mangalitsa pig!  Contact us to reserve your roasting hog, and we’ll give you a call to set up the details.  We’ll need to know the date, location, and number of people/size of hog.  We can not UPS whole hog carcasses, but delivery may be available if you are within a reasonable distance.  Of course, there’s nothing like the story of your hog if you pick it up at the farm!  Have roaster, will travel!

 

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