by Mark & Jill Baker | Aug 31, 2023 | Education, Green Acres, Home Schooling, Homesteading Classes
Farm kids. Why do you do this farm thing? It’s a question you need to have a good answer to, or you won’t have a strong enough reason to do the hard things farming requires. In our case, and for many of you, it’s farm kids. Our kids, and your kids....
by Mark & Jill Baker | Aug 2, 2023 | Dairy, Education, Green, Homesteading, Organic Farming
Bulls. Looking across the rickety “Michigan gate” into the eyes of Endeavor the Guernsey bull, I started asking myself a few questions. “How serious is he about his bully threats? Do I dare bluff him?” “Why the heck do we still have a...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 5, 2022 | Butchering, Chickens, Green, Learn how to butcher
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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jul 19, 2021 | Education, Green, Homesteading Classes
Long ago, a farmer was sitting at the campfire with his friends, dicouraged about attacks on his farm. “They (being government and large ag entities) just don’t want people to raise their own food, or to be farming small scale,” worried he and his...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 23, 2020 | Charcuterie, Education, Green, Hog Harvest, Learn how to butcher, Mangalitsa
Homestead Hog Harvest isn’t just a class. It’s an experience. “Never underestimate the power of a bloody handshake.” –a former class member The class always starts with people wearing name tags standing in a circle around Mark, looking...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jul 9, 2020 | Education, Green, Homesteading, Organic Farming, Team Work
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...
