by Mark & Jill Baker | Jul 9, 2020 | Education, Green, Homesteading, Organic Farming, Team Work
The bottom line of your homestead farm’s economics. Are you all about a good environment for the kids? Making some money? Having good food to eat? Helping your local community? All of the above are possible and important. The economics of a homestead is about...
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 20, 2020 | Education, Farm to Fork, Hog Harvest, Homesteading, Homesteading Classes, Learn how to butcher, Mangalitsa, Organic Farming, Pasture Mangalitsa, Team Work
This is our project this weekend: teaching a valuable homesteading skill. Appreciating your food and knowing that it was raised, harvested, and prepared with care from field to plate is part of a healthy lifestyle. Your food is your nourishment and an investment you...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Apr 26, 2017 | Chickens, Team Work
A Family Affair: Pastured Poultry A family farm is a family affair. We all work at it together. A team. Not that everything goes smoothly, but we’re in it as a team. Last weekend the project was putting the chicks out in chicken tractors, where they...