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...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 25, 2019 | Green
Freedom. Liberty. These are important words in our human being. They are as important to the human spirit as life. As I write this it is Memorial Day weekend. For us in the U.S. it’s a time to pause and honor those who have paid the ultimate price for other...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 18, 2019 | Green
Ghee is an ancient practice of clarifying butter to give it a longer shelf life and to increase the digestibility of the fats. It basically amounts to heating the butter and “rendering” it to separate the water, fat, and proteins. It stores well on the...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 10, 2019 | Green
“Fences make great neighbors.” Every heard that one? Ever chased your cow, pig, goat, or sheep out of your neighbor’s yard? If you’ve kept animals (or lived next to them), you can appreciate that wisdom. We’ve built a lot of fences. ...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 8, 2019 | Green
Wealth can be measured by money in the bank. But a better measure may be abundance of life. By that accounting, homestead farmers are the richest folks on earth! We were at a lunch with a group of friends not too long ago, and the younger lady across from me with...