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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jul 5, 2021 | Green
The Anyone Can Farm Tribe Day starts soon! Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) Sign up to join us today! Register here We hope you’ll join us for a fun day of learning and fellowship! Here’s the basic plan: Event time schedule: Time Event...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 7, 2021 | Dairy, Green, Non-GMO Milk, Organic Milk, Raw Milk
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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Apr 6, 2021 | Green
It’s Spring! April is an odd time, a transition time on the farm. We’re still cleaning up winter, but summer’s energy isn’t quite there yet. No snow. No grass. So, what are we doing? Preparing. Entertaining visions of the possibilities of the...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Mar 18, 2021 | Green, Mangalitsa, Mangalitsa Farrowing, Mangalitsa Sow, Pasture Mangalitsa
Life’s a funny thing. You learn lessons you think you’ve learned before. Sometimes they are easy refreshers. Sometimes not. This week was like that. One of our sows looked ready to pop, so Mark put an extra hut out for her. He bedded it with straw really...
