by Mark & Jill Baker | Apr 16, 2011 | Chickens, Green, Mangalitsa, Non-GMO Pasture Raised Chicken, Non-GMO Pasture Raised Pork, Organic Breakfast Sausage, Organic Chicken, Organic Farming, Organic Pork, Pasture Mangalitsa, Pasture Raised Chicken, Pasture Raised Pork
On April 12 we officially had the first chickens out on grass. Well, grass such as it is when the snow has only been off it a week or less. We needed to clean out the clearspan building in preparation for our summer production, so these chickens got kicked out and...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jan 5, 2011 | Organic Farming, Pasture Mangalitsa, Pasture Raised Chicken, Pasture Raised Pork
This quote is from Simply In Season, a wonderful and usable cookbook, written by Cathleen Hockman-Wert: “Cows in feedlots eat grains like corn, soybean meal and barley, which mostly are grown on large industrial farms fueled by petroleum. By one estimate, it...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jan 10, 2010 | Homesteading, Mangalitsa, Organic Farming, Pasture Mangalitsa
Meant to be pigs – Raising Mangalitsa Hogs There’s nothing like watching a pig do what it’s meant to do. These Mangalitsa pigs are fun to watch, too, because they are so different from the standard hogs we’ve raised before. They are like the...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Sep 19, 2009 | Farm to Fork, Mangalitsa, Organic Pork, Pasture Mangalitsa, Pasture Raised Pork
This summer we sent a Mangalitsa pig up to Chef Ted Cizma at the Grand Traverse Resort… but I’ll let him tell you about it. I wish I could have tried some of those interesting dishes. Maybe this winter when we go to Pigstock 2010….
by Mark & Jill Baker | Feb 14, 2009 | Farm to Fork, Green, Mangalitsa, Non-GMO Pasture Raised Pork, Pasture Mangalitsa, Pasture Raised Pork
This is a link to a radio interview with Heath Putnam, owner of Wooly Pigs and the entire breeding stock thereof in North America. Mark got to spend some time with him while in Washington and enjoyed him.
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jan 24, 2009 | Education, Green, Home Schooling, Mangalitsa, Non-GMO Pasture Raised Pork, Organic Farming, Pasture Mangalitsa, Pasture Raised Pork
Education has been our big thrust lately. This coming week will be pretty intense as we have a couple things coming up. Last week was interesting, too, though. I come from a family that values life long learning, and we have found that sustainable living and...
