by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 4, 2020 | Green, Home Schooling, Homesteading, Organic Farming, Team Work
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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Feb 7, 2020 | Green
Setting good fence posts is the foundation of a good fence. 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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jul 31, 2019 | Green
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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 18, 2019 | Green
“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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 12, 2019 | Green
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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jun 9, 2019 | Green
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...
