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 | Oct 15, 2010 | Chickens, Organic Chicken, Organic Farming
“USDA Certified Organic” is, perhaps, a somewhat better choice than standard food stuff. However, unless it is also local (ie: Shetler’s dairy), where there is local accountability and farmers really mean organic to be the best,...
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 | Mar 30, 2009 | Fun, Organic Farming
Lots of new things this week at Baker’s Green Acres farm. We have new projects, new animals, and new housing for the animals we have. New projects first. The guys worked on erecting the clear span house we have for the chickens. Last fall the building parts...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Feb 19, 2009 | Farm to Fork, Green, Green Acres, Organic Farming, Organic Politics
We have a bit of a running joke here: Mark is either networking or farming, depending on who he’s spent the last hour talking to. Last night we got to do both at the same time. The USDA and Michigan Land Use Institute put on the last in a series of meetings...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Feb 1, 2009 | Green, Green Acres, Organic Farming, Organic Politics, Uncategorized
Yesterday Mark, Kyle, Joe, Sam, and I spent the day in classrooms. The boys decided they liked their home classroom better than the Grayling High School ones, so that was one unexpected bonus. This is the first year they’ve gone. There were sessions designed...
