by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 28, 2022 | Green
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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 15, 2022 | Green
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...
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 | Apr 22, 2022 | Green
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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Apr 15, 2022 | Green
Livestock Guardian dogs (Great Pyrenees, to be exact) save the day! Do you know you almost didn’t have access to Northern Michigan’s best pasture raised chickens? Our second or third year here on Baker’s Green Acres, we had predators that got nearly...
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...
