by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 5, 2009 | Green
Mangalitsa pigs love potatoes. Not as much as acorns, but more than turnips. These are the young group of Mangalitsas. They made a miraculously easy move (when they race ahead to go exactly where you want them, it is nothing short of a miracle!) through the yard...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Nov 21, 2009 | Green
Deer season, that is. In honor of this momentus time of year, Joe the Skinner wrote a poem: Fall is come, Yellow leaves are here. Downstaters come with their 24 packs of Budlight Beer and their big guns to shoot that 2 point deer. Oh yes, fall is here. Fact is,...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Nov 17, 2009 | Green
Oh, has November in northern Michigan ever been nice. My Canadian aunt has been listing the things she’s still enjoying fresh from her garden. Our own garden has been producing little bits yet. I’ve gotta cook up some pumpkins and squash that got a bit...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Nov 11, 2009 | Green
This week we are waving our last goodbyes to a grand old lady. I’m not so sure about the last goodbye part–she will live on in the lives of those of us left behind–goodbyes are messy like that. I don’t know that it’s right to think of...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Nov 4, 2009 | Green
It’s a gray, yucky day here on the farm. We’re ready for some liquid sunshine in the form of the cod liver pills we take through the winter. There’s a nasty cold (maybe flu?) going around, closing schools (except for those fortunate children who...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Oct 28, 2009 | Green
The more we work with and learn about these wooly Mangalitsa pigs, the more we appreciate them. They are a unique breed in the pig world–because of the potential their genetics give them and because of the disciplines that maximize that potential. Heath Putnam...
